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that is my cmoputer i just bought, i hate vista, nothing works with it, can i take a hd from my old computer that has windows xp and put it in there ?? would i have to download the drivers and evehting from gatewyas webstie, for the mother board, ect.. ?? thank you
Yes, though would need to undertake a Repair Install.
The other question is will XP now validate, as the License is quite likely linked to your old PC.
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well, see, it gives me a 30 day trial, some of you will think im crazy but i dont mind reinstalling it every 30 days to give me another 30, i kno it s very dumb but hey, what can you do
anyways im just worried about the drivers for the mother board ect... will xp have these or do i have to manually go find them ?
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You will possibly have to find them, there are several programs like HWINFO which can intergrate what hardware you have.
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"well, see, it gives me a 30 day trial"
That statement has just made this discussion a violation of the rules of this forum. You are discussing getting around license requirements, IE piracy
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"can i take a hd from my old computer that has windows xp and put it in there ??"
Yes but I don't think XP will load without advice and apporval from Microsoft.
"would i have to download the drivers and evehting from gatewyas webstie, for the mother board, ect.. ??"
If you could get an XP OS running on your new computer, you would want to install the chipset drivers for the new computer.
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That statement has just made this discussion a violation of the rules of this forum. You are discussing getting around license requirements, IE piracy
how is it illegal when it is legal ?? show me the excerpt where it says, only used once, please
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"that is my cmoputer i just bought, i hate vista, nothing works with it,"
That is a subjective statement, perhaps to be taken with a pinch of salt. I seem to recall similar refrain when XP first came out - let's just say, we all know how that has turned out now ;-)
If I was you, I would simply have left Vista intact as is and installed XP in a separate partition for an XP-Vista dual-boot environment.
Good luck!
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thank you, thats the exact answer i am looking for thank you very much, thank God you answered my question man you dont knwo how much this means to me, phewwwwww. kudos !!!
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XP is the best way to go for at least another year, cause Vista is giving people a lot of problems. It's almost like ME all over again in a sense.
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"That is a subjective statement, perhaps to be taken with a pinch of salt. I seem to recall similar refrain when XP first came out - let's just say, we all know how that has turned out now ;-)"
Exactly Saber! Things will improve and Vista will eventuall displace XP. I believe it won't be another ME - but then I would say that, cos i've bought it and I'm desperately hoping it's not! ;)
If you want a laugh, go back to the early days of the XP forum on here:
http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/...
...being the first post on here when it was still in beta!
I find it shocking that 10000 posts later it was just the start of 2002, just mere months after the release of Windows XP!! So there was a hell of a lot of opinion and problems with XP at the time, which kinda proves the point that not everyone liked it back then.
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I am also having the same problem with my vista machine. I have installed MCE but the important drivers are missing. Any help would be nice...thanks...
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