E Machine

[brandyg]

Please help me E Machine

Can anyone tell me if i can load Windows xp that came with the emachine into a computer that is not an emachine. I would like have the same operating system on both my computers but like i said one is an emachine and the other is one that i had built for me.

 

[Compaq]

if the emachine is like my daughters then no because windows xp is ghosted on to a restore disk
and the disk reads the basic properties of the motherboard.
It would probably work on another emachines but not on another machine.

i know this because i tried it :-(

 

[rdcmmnst]

What ia an e machine

 

[dustinbumpy]

I don't think it makes an difference. I have an E-machine and I have Win XP installed on it and I have my own custom built PC and it works fine also with Win XP. I am positive that it would work unless you are switching hard drives where as you put the E-machine hard drive in the one computer( that isn't E-machine) and hope that it works. Then... probably not. If you are just trying to installing windows XP onto your E-machine then you should have no problem.

 

[dustinbumpy]

What ia an e machine

lmao... it's a brand of computer. You aren't going to do well here, if you have no idea what a E-machine is.

 

[Tommy Boy]

no it won't work, if it's a disk that came with the computer....they won't work with any other machine than the one they were intended for. I tried this with my hp....no dice....you'll have to shell out some cash for windows xp....sorry dude.

 

[lurkswithin]

The operating system must stay with the machine it was originally installed on.. Those are the rules.