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I would do a fresh install of XP. Posted by B Millar [Email] (#1109) [Profile/Gallery] (more from B Millar) on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:39:49 In Reply to: OT: New hard drive in an XP computer, brick8, Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:04:11 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
You should have an XP disc that came with the computer. Then you can set your old drive as a slave and copy all your documents to the new main drive.
You might run into a problem though because the XP setup isn't compatible with SATA-2 drives IIRC. It's been a while since I had to deal with this but I think you can set a jumper on the hard drive to act like an older SATA drive so it'll run the XP setup, or you can Google around for other alternatives. Good luck!
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