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Originally posted by mcrosby@28 November 2003 - 02:10
The reason you can't just install your hard drive into another computer and install it via that machine is because people can't be bothered to tell you that under windows xp there is a high possibility that xp will not allow the drive to swap computers after its installed on the other machine with your hd. This is due to anti-piracy techniques from microsoft and I'm not sure of the solution for that. You can, however install most other versions of Windows using this method, so try this option if you are not installing a windows os thats less than four years old, so win 95, 98, me will work fine. Probably 2000 and NT too! :-)
this can simply be overcome by :