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Originally Posted by vegasone
As long as both machines are running XP, getting the old hard drive to work on the new machine as the primary drive is easy. What I usually did was copy the old drive unto a newer drive and expand the partition as needed, if I was wanting more capacity, or just use the old drive as the boot drive. I would still back up the older drive just in case.
Removing the old drivers in safe mode and installing new drivers after reboot should be simple.
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In the days of IDE interface drives this was do-able for mere mortals. These days though with SATA chipsets AHCI mode and all the rest it typically takes a person with a great deal of experience to pull this off. Windows deployment onto dissimilar hardware is a significant slice of my day job.
