Dual Boot Os Help

ran1wil · 03-23-2009, 02:39 PM

Currently i have an older Compaq loaded with xp pro and now i have a alien ware tower with Linux. i want to take the xp hard drive and stick inside the alien ware tower along side the Linux hdd. but have know idea how to set it up nor do i know how to adjust my drivers for xp to accept the new motherboard. i also never used Linux but i want to keep both and learn. I have built many of windows towers in the past but never set up more than one bootable hdd.
please help

**sobeit** · 03-23-2009, 02:58 PM

if xp pro came with the compaq or was oem, then it cannot ever be installed on another computer.

If it is a legal copy that can be moved to another computer, you will have to do a repair install using the winxp cd on the drive.

~~connor-53~~ · 03-23-2009, 05:24 PM

Woah, that Alienware was good until Linux got on it lol.

ran1wil · 03-23-2009, 05:53 PM

the xp os is not the original os that came with the compaq and as for the alien ware pc i had some one put the linux os on it for me so i could learn it.

**linderman** · 03-24-2009, 01:37 PM

if you copy of win XP is a retail version and not supplied by an OEM system builder ........... like Dell,gateway, HP, compaq etc etc etc then you can transfer it to the alienware ............. but you cant run it on both machines at the same time ....... one or the other is what the EULA permits on retail xp

**wrench97** · 03-25-2009, 02:43 PM

What OS was one the Alienware that should have had windows installed when you got, do you still have the key?

03-23-2009, 02:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
ran1wil Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Xp pro	Dual Boot Os Help Currently i have an older Compaq loaded with xp pro and now i have a alien ware tower with Linux. i want to take the xp hard drive and stick inside the alien ware tower along side the Linux hdd. but have know idea how to set it up nor do i know how to adjust my drivers for xp to accept the new motherboard. i also never used Linux but i want to keep both and learn. I have built many of windows towers in the past but never set up more than one bootable hdd. please help

03-23-2009, 02:58 PM	#2 (permalink)
sobeit TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NEAR Posts: 7,433 OS: windows/linux	Re: Dual Boot Os Help if xp pro came with the compaq or was oem, then it cannot ever be installed on another computer. If it is a legal copy that can be moved to another computer, you will have to do a repair install using the winxp cd on the drive. __________________ there's been global warming since the ice age

03-23-2009, 05:24 PM	#3 (permalink)
~~connor-53~~ Troubled Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: New York Posts: 525 OS: Vista Home Prem. 64 bit My System	Re: Dual Boot Os Help Woah, that Alienware was good until Linux got on it lol.

03-23-2009, 05:53 PM	#4 (permalink)
ran1wil Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Xp pro	Re: Dual Boot Os Help the xp os is not the original os that came with the compaq and as for the alien ware pc i had some one put the linux os on it for me so i could learn it.

03-24-2009, 01:37 PM	#5 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,441 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: Dual Boot Os Help if you copy of win XP is a retail version and not supplied by an OEM system builder ........... like Dell,gateway, HP, compaq etc etc etc then you can transfer it to the alienware ............. but you cant run it on both machines at the same time ....... one or the other is what the EULA permits on retail xp __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

03-25-2009, 02:43 PM	#6 (permalink)
wrench97 Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2008 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania Posts: 18,689 OS: Win7	Re: Dual Boot Os Help What OS was one the Alienware that should have had windows installed when you got, do you still have the key? __________________ Power Supply and Selection