[cornbread]

Will it work if I remove my hard drive (primary) from one computer and install in another? Will it notice the new processor and such and continue to work as always?

Thanks

[Supertrucker]

it is supposed to, but most people around here like to format and reinstall when the motherboard is changed, ive done it with win98 before though

[Krusty]

Originally posted by cornbread
Will it work if I remove my hard drive (primary) from one computer and install in another? Will it notice the new processor and such and continue to work as always?

Thanks

yes and no. It will work, but it won't work to its best ability, especially if you have majorly different motherboards. I'm willing ot bet that WinXP will detect it flawlessly though.

Anyways, without the correct motherboard drivers, things will be slow, so be sure to uninstall and update the motherboard drivers.

[koby]

Not with XP...

XP was made to detect being installed on multiple computers (different hardware)

You will get the blue screen of death when you try to start up XP on a different machine than it was installed on...

pretty dumb, it even happens with the not so legit copys of xp too )

[XWRed1]

Win2k did that too. It has nothing to do with WPA, its because XP/2k will still be trying to use the driver for the old ide controller, which probably isn't compatible with the new one, and hence it can't read the hard drive to boot itself. Thats why it says INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.