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if you change your hard drive, do you have to re-install an operating system (ex.

windows XP/Vista)

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An Unknown Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (2 minutes after post)

yes and be sure to back all your stuff up like your product key that you installed your operating system with

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An Unknown Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (5 minutes after post)

if you dont have it or cant find it use “rockxp”
it recovers password as well as your product key

download:” http://www.snapfiles.com/get/rockxp.html ”

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An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (7 minutes after post)

You can image the old drive, which would be much less time-consuming; you’ll want a copy of Partition Magic as well if your new drive is of larger capacity.

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An Unknown Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (11 minutes after post)

WELLLLLL….ya that would be easyier but still backup any REALY importent stuff
ex bookmarks dont get backed up with partion magic and there are some registry errors when cloning harddisks but whatever

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Laguna Niguel, CA, US | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (18 minutes after post)

just get one of these and copy everything over and I mean every single thing that is on your hard drive. heres your link.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicatio…

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An Unknown Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (21 minutes after post)

nice one cbgocart19 smart

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