Hello,
Sorry if this has been asked before, but this is my last day of my windows grace period and I'm pressed for time. I looked back 3 pages and didn't see anything about hard drive swapping. (Well there was one post by a guy with like 4 hard drives and a bunch of new stuff, but that was about AMD to Pentium processors and stuff like that)

But I have an older computer with a 40GB hard drive with windows XP on it that works fine and is registered and all that good stuff.
My current computer crashed last month (I posted about it) and I had to reformat with a reboot CD my friend has. It's a legal copy and I can have my picture taken with it to prove it if I have to.
When I go to activate windows online or by phone it says it's unauthorized and if I enter the Key that it has it will not make a new number to give. The Activation person over the phone said "It is beyond my expertise, please call microsoft" And I did, and they sent me to a web-site link on a completely un-related problem and so I looked around the site, and the site says to call by phone for free installing support, and the phone says to check the same exact useless page every time so I'm sort of stuck. But it is a real version of windows, I just have no idea what's wrong and I don't want to have to re-install and re-install all of my games and transfer all my CD's back onto my hard drive again.

But yeah, this long sad story is leading up to my question of:
If I take my 40GB HD out of my old computer and put it in my new computer would windows still work? I have different hardware in this machine, Including an actual video card instead of on-board and all that. I'd have to get drivers and everything and blah blah blah. :: sigh :: This is all just getting stressful.


Umm... Celeron(R) CPU 2.66
Nvidia Geforce 5500
1GB ram

(I know it's not the best, but my computer is also a little old.)