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Originally Posted by PCH
Hi Marc,
thanks for your thoughts. Your response set me searching thru my disc box and to my surprise I do actually have the original XP/SP3 CD
I don't understand all that jargon about VMware on your Win 7 host though. can you put that in another way for me please?
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If you have the original CD you'll be ok to reactivate it.
First step is to virtualize your old computer. So if you use VMware you'll end up with a *.vmx file. Then you install VMware on your new computer. Start VMware, open the *.vmx file and run the old computer on your new hardware. First time over it will boot and connect to the drives, graphic card, internet, may (or may not) ask you to activate Windows XP, then it will reboot (the VM). Then you're good to go. Best thing about a VM is that you can snapshot it and go back to a previous working version. (like a system restore). If you need any specifics ask Trevor Gerdes. He's the VMware rep
