drop in another HDD

[matanzas]

I am suspecting that I cannot just take the HDD out of an HP machine with a Celeron processor and drop it into an IBM with a P4 without changing something else?

TIA

 

[bcastner]

Are you expecting it to boot Windows, such as Win2k or XP?
No, you cannot.

Ignoring licensing issues and in the case of XP activation issues, the hardware is so different that the machine would not boot.

Some things to read to get you started:

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/other/motherboard/win2k.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=249694

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;nl;314070

 

[matanzas]

Thanks BC, I didn't think it would be that simple...