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So, what are my options... bendover and take it from microsoft, or is there I way I can load the XP from our new computer onto the old one and retain all of the old data?
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well, i dont know how savy you are with hardware, but you could always hook up your ME harddive as a slave to the XP and copy stuff over like that. make sure you set the jumper of the ME drive to slave and hook it up on the slave part of the ribbon on the XP machine
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Originally Posted by Twister97
well, i dont know how savy you are with hardware, but you could always hook up your ME harddive as a slave to the XP and copy stuff over like that. make sure you set the jumper of the ME drive to slave and hook it up on the slave part of the ribbon on the XP machine
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wont work WinXP isnt like 9x in the sense you can swap its hdd from one machine to another it'll give you a blue screen telling you of an error, its part of microsofts lovely antipiricy things been around sense Win2k I still wanna say either something was messed with on the WinME computer virus or settings
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my mistake I misunderstud what you were getting at there but yes if the other hdd is set to slave WinXP should be able to read it an you can pull off what ever was of importance on it that you dont want to lose if you need to reinstall windows did you mess with any of its hardware or anything before this happed it might be over heating an turning off or does it give an error box before this happens?
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Originally Posted by kazuki
my mistake I misunderstud what you were getting at there but yes if the other hdd is set to slave WinXP should be able to read it an you can pull off what ever was of importance on it that you dont want to lose if you need to reinstall windows did you mess with any of its hardware or anything before this happed it might be over heating an turning off or does it give an error box before this happens?
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No way. You can still use that computer again anytime. Once you transfer files from the ME harddrive to the XP drive, take the ME drive out, put it back in the old computer, then boot directly to the XP cd and fromat the harddrive, then install XP on the old ME machine....do ya follow kazuki and I at all? it is kinda hard to explain sometimes.
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Originally Posted by Twister97
No way. You can still use that computer again anytime. Once you transfer files from the ME harddrive to the XP drive, take the ME drive out, put it back in the old computer, then boot directly to the XP cd and fromat the harddrive, then install XP on the old ME machine....do ya follow kazuki and I at all? it is kinda hard to explain sometimes.
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Nope, it is just a Microsoft goofy thing. As long as you paid for the CD somehow, you can do anything with it. (except make copies and illegal crap like that)
Did you say you know how to hook up two harddrives or not?
Booting to a cd is easy, just pop the cd in the tray while the computer is on. then restart the computer and an option should come up that says boot to cd press any key. press a key and you will have options to format and install windows xp. but remember to do that after you back up your info! if you need help on hooking up two hard drives let me know and i will do a write up for you real fast.
Did you say you know how to hook up two harddrives or not?
Booting to a cd is easy, just pop the cd in the tray while the computer is on. then restart the computer and an option should come up that says boot to cd press any key. press a key and you will have options to format and install windows xp. but remember to do that after you back up your info! if you need help on hooking up two hard drives let me know and i will do a write up for you real fast.