Migration Assistant OEM PC

[jackjanos]

Garner says when migrating from a PC, that if the PC is running an OEM version, "the migration may fail".

Is there a workaround for this?  The PC I want to migrate is an OEM XP version.

I do have an XP installation disk for another PC.  Can I re-install this on the OEM PC to make it a non-OEM PC?  So the Migration Assistant would work.

Or is there some other workaround?

Jack

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[WoodyZ]

OEM versions of Microsoft products live and die on the first system they are installed on and are not transferable to another system, physical or virtual.  If you have a Retail or VLK version of Windows XP then just create the Virtual Machine directly from the Disc.

[jackjanos]

Thanks for the response. I can create the Virtual Machine with my

Retail version. But once this is done, what I need to do is to get

all of the Applications that are on the PC into this Virtual

Machine. Can the migration assistant successfully migrate all of the

other stuff & applications from the PC, except for the OEM operating

system? And will they all work on the Virtual Machine.

If yes, how is this done? Or do I need to re-install all of the

Apps? This would take forever. I guess my question is can you pick

& choose what the Migration Assistant migrates?

Jack

[WoodyZ]

You will need to reinstall your applications and copy/move your user data my normal methods use to move information between devices.

[jackjanos]

Thanks, I was afraid I'd have to do this. Thanks for confirming this.

Jack