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Swapping a hard drive with XP and PC-Dmis 4.1 to a similar PC?

badhorsie

I have a newer hard drive with XP and Pc-Dmis 4.1 on an older PC that is having issues. I would like to put this hard drive into a newer (similar) PC, is this something that will require a brain surgeon or is it somewhat seamless to do? I searched around here and seen a lot of people with crashed hard drives and starting from scratch but I have a good hard drive with everything in tact and working, the PC is just old and tired. My IT guy says he can find a very similar model that my hard drive will work in with XP.

Anyone tried doing this?

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    So techy talk: If you toss the boot hard drive with a different case/motherboard, your registry settings and drivers will definitely be different and could result in lots of weird laggy outcomes.  It might "WORK" but it likely will not be a user-friendly experience.  If your "Newer" motherboard has equipment or components that aren't recognized or supported by XP it will compound the drama (like RAM size, clock speeds, motherboard's firmware etc).

    Another concern is if you put a new hard drive into the old PC, you have to partition the drive down to a size that XP can recognize, I think it's 137gb, unless you get later versions of XP with all the service packs applied (then it's like 2tb)

    You can always put a secondary hard drive in as a "Slave" and at least transfer files directly into the boot drive.  You may be able to get install files for v4.1, from hexagon.  If not let me know, i might have the disc hoarded someplace at work.

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    So techy talk: If you toss the boot hard drive with a different case/motherboard, your registry settings and drivers will definitely be different and could result in lots of weird laggy outcomes.  It might "WORK" but it likely will not be a user-friendly experience.  If your "Newer" motherboard has equipment or components that aren't recognized or supported by XP it will compound the drama (like RAM size, clock speeds, motherboard's firmware etc).

    Another concern is if you put a new hard drive into the old PC, you have to partition the drive down to a size that XP can recognize, I think it's 137gb, unless you get later versions of XP with all the service packs applied (then it's like 2tb)

    You can always put a secondary hard drive in as a "Slave" and at least transfer files directly into the boot drive.  You may be able to get install files for v4.1, from hexagon.  If not let me know, i might have the disc hoarded someplace at work.

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