Re: Re: switching WinXP licenses on two PCs

[rick baird <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

> If they were identical the swap would work.  I seem to recall from years
> ago that slight differences in the bios between machines could affect how
> the drive parameters were interpreted which could in turn affect
> operations.  As I said, that was years ago and it may not be a big deal
> these days.  Still, I'm paranoid and would prefer a new install on the new
> system.  If nothing else you are sure that you aren't inheriting a bunch of
> old junk (temp files, device drivers, unwanted software, malware, viruses,
> etc.) along with the stuff that you want to keep.

Well, the WinXPpro install was done to a brand new, out of the box
disk drive early this summer, so it's pretty fresh.

I use Zone Alarm and run adaware, spybot, and AVG antivirus, all
updated weekly, so I'm pretty sure it's all good.

the bios thing could cause a problem, but i think that should be
picked up on first boot - I had no problems putting the brand new
drive as the master on the old pc, so I would hope the newer one
should recognize it.

I've been wrong before though.

Rick