On 2014-04-04, Mayayana wrote:

The original issue was about having it all set
up on a hard disk, then moving that to a new
machine with new hardware. So the problem
there would be whether XP could "survive" the
move.

In my case, it did NOT. Moved the XP 60G HDD from a Vaio (asus
mobo) w/ 2.5MHz Intel P4 cpu to a Vaio (asus mobo) w/ 1.4MHz Intel P4
cpu. Both boxes almost idential except for cpu and memory (RDRAM vs
SDRAM). XP would not boot, even into safe mode, despite similarities
of systems. I think it was the difference in memory or FSB speed (100
vs 133). Whatever, it didn't fly.

nb