RE: Run XP harddrive in a donor machine ?

["Jonathan Tawn @ Home" <Jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Iirc, the 'correct' method of doing this is to put the old hd in the
new
machine, start the installation of xp and repair your current install -
that
way xp will retain all of its settings and work as its supposed to do with
your new hardware - whatever the configuration maybe.



If you change the architecture of your pc in such a way like new
mobo/cpu/ram/etc xp may well throw a bit of a wobbly before a 'rebuild'
(using the above method)



Don't quote me on it, its a while since i've don't anything like this
though.



Cheers,

Jonathan



From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Joseph Heenan
Sent: 18 February 2007 16:59
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Run XP harddrive in a donor machine ?



If you dump the existing drive in as a second drive in the new PC,
there's a good chance you can create a vmware player configuration for
it and be able to run the old harddrive as a virtual server inside the
OS on the new PC.

Joseph

Simon McCaughey wrote:
> Try it, but be aware that if you use a different architecture, as in
> move from Intel to AMD it won't work as XP uses a different kernal
> version for each (I think, but Im no expert :)
>
> S.
>
> On 18/02/07, darbyweb <dean@xxxxxxx
<mailto:dean%40littlelightcompany.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>>My main PC has failed at home (yes i know backup backup etc), but
no
>>backup. Its not a HD failure, but i think the fan failed and fried
the
>>CPU.
>>
>>Question is - if i buy a new PC, can i run the old HD in there so i
>>can recover Outlook, and get a list of all the progs that are on
there
>>so i can start over.
>>
>>I know i can put the drive in as a slave to read data, but i would
>>really like to actually run XP up.
>>
>>Will it work in safe mode with the wrong display drivers etc. ?
>>





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