Computer finaly bit the dust

[ExTruckie]

Hello All

My 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 appreciated

Thanks

Edited February 8, 2011 by ExTruckie

[ChiefZeke]

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.

[allen2]

There would be a license problem as an Oem XP license can not be transfered to another computer.

Edited February 8, 2011 by allen2

[ExTruckie]

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.