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Keymaker · May 15th, 2008, 11:03 AM

If you have the disk and product key code, sure! Now if you are wanting to transfer the contens of the desktop to the laptop, well that's going to be tricker. First, you need to make a clone of the desktop's hard drive. Then, on the laptop your probably going to see Windows pop up a message stating that the Windows product activation is invalid. You can correct this by going through the steps there and just click "change key" and enter the one you have. Believe I have this right. Did this in VMware.

You may want to erase the hard drive before giving it away. It may take more than 12 hours depending on speed and size of hard drive.

Here we go. http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/howto-19.html

More in depth info. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html#3

May 15th, 2008, 11:03 AM	#7 (permalink)
Keymaker Banned Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Loveland, CO Posts: 5,493 Blog Entries: 2	If you have the disk and product key code, sure! Now if you are wanting to transfer the contens of the desktop to the laptop, well that's going to be tricker. First, you need to make a clone of the desktop's hard drive. Then, on the laptop your probably going to see Windows pop up a message stating that the Windows product activation is invalid. You can correct this by going through the steps there and just click "change key" and enter the one you have. Believe I have this right. Did this in VMware. You may want to erase the hard drive before giving it away. It may take more than 12 hours depending on speed and size of hard drive. Here we go. http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/howto-19.html More in depth info. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html#3 Last edited by Keymaker : May 15th, 2008 at 11:29 AM.