XP Restore Question 1

[dubruoy]

I got a computer from someone that has a few programs and XP Pro installed. I got the programs with the computer, but the seller wanted to keep his XP Pro and so I purchased XP Pro for this computer.

The computer runs well and has no problems and I was wondering if I could put my disc in, boot the computer, run restore with this disk and end up with the computer intact with my xp installed instead of his.

I would rather do this than reformat and reinstall everything if possible. I could just leave it the way it is but I doubt it would be legal eventhough I purchased xp for this computer since the key code would not be correct and he will be installing his xp on another machine.

 

[wasisnt]

Do a repair installation of XP with your new disk and it should ask you for the code of the disk you are installing with. It should also leave all your programs and files intact. Backup first just in case though.

http://www.onlinecomputertips.com/troubleshooting/repair_install.html

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[dubruoy]

Thanks wasisnt...I thought that this would work but I wasn't sure. I imagine that I will have to download all the windows updates but I would have to do that anyway if I did a fresh install.