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Old 06-11-2004, 09:43 PM  
xenigo
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Originally posted by iwantchixx
the system will hang on boot. the OS is not transplatable. You COULD try going into add/remove programs, uninstall EVERY driver then go into add/remove hardware and remove EVERY possible piece of hardware all before pulling the drive out but you are better off going with a fresh install.
Yes, but she can do a parallel install that will put another copy of XP on the same drive, then she can take the data she needs and then wipe everything else.

That will avoid having to do a large backup on seperate disks.
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