ExTruckie Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 (edited) Hello AllMy brother's computer, an old HP machine with XP on it, finally died, the hard drive is ok, The machine will boot and shut off after a few minuets. He bought a new barebones machine without an os. I need to know if it is possible to use the recovery partition on the old hard drive to reinstall XP on the new machine. He does not have a physical disk to reinstall but I do. Any help would be appreciatedThanks Edited February 8, 2011 by ExTruckie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefZeke Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 The recovery partition is designed to return the system on which it was installed back to its original condition as it came from the factory - you cannot just move the drive to a different computer and expect it to work. the install/setup routine is designed to look for a particular motherboard, cpu, etc and won't work on a different system; unless that 'new' system has exactly the same components as the original.If there is a way around this someone here will point out how that could be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 (edited) There would be a license problem as an Oem XP license can not be transfered to another computer. Edited February 8, 2011 by allen2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExTruckie Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 That's what I was afraid of Well I do have an old install disk from my XP Pro install since i migrated to Win7 so I could install that on his machine. and just transfer the data by copying it over from the other drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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