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My laptop HDD is failing and i got a new desktop but it runs XP sp 3 9i believe) can i take the os -windows vista 32- off of the laptop for the desktop -Dell laptop-

Yes you can, but I really reccomend you don't keep using vista. It is crap. Regardless, go to control panel, select system and manatinence, then click backup and restore. Then, in the left pane, click create system image. Put the image on an external hard drive. Then, when promped, create a system repair disc. Go to the desktop, put the repair disk in, boot to it with your external drive attached, and select your image. It will then preceed to install vista on your HDD. I did this to make sure vitsa does not crash when you put the old OS on a different computer.

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My laptop HDD is failing and i got a new desktop but it runs XP sp 3 9i believe) can i take the os -windows vista 32- off of the laptop for the desktop -Dell laptop-

Yes you can, but I really reccomend you don't keep using vista. It is crap. Regardless, go to control panel, select system and manatinence, then click backup and restore. Then, in the left pane, click create system image. Put the image on an external hard drive. Then, when promped, create a system repair disc. Go to the desktop, put the repair disk in, boot to it with your external drive attached, and select your image. It will then preceed to install vista on your HDD. I did this to make sure vitsa does not crash when you put the old OS on a different computer.

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

- Cave Johnson, founder and CEO of Aperture Science, in Portal 2

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the plan isnt to use vista much longer but how do i do this can u help?

Go to control panel, select system and manatinence, then click backup and restore. Then, in the left pane, click create system image. Put the image on an external hard drive. Then, when promped, create a system repair disc. Go to the desktop, put the repair disk in, boot to it with your external drive attached, and select your image. It will then preceed to install vista on your HDD. I did this to make sure vitsa does not crash when you put the old OS on a different computer.

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

- Cave Johnson, founder and CEO of Aperture Science, in Portal 2

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