Windows XP harddrive as secondary in Windows 8 pc

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My mom has been doing photoshop for years on her old pc with Windows XP on it because photoshop is as you know, very expensive. recently her computer has stopped outputting signals to all peripherals. (Moniter, mouse, keyboard, etc) but the computer still turns on and runs... She wanted to know if I could just move the hard drive with all of the files on it to the new pc I built her that already has windows 8 on it. So my question is can I move that old hard drive into the new windows 8 pc without losing any of the files on it? (Especially photoshop) and without damaging the new pc in any way?
 
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utgotye

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If you mean booting off of it? Assuming the drive/motherboard have the proper connectors, no problem. That said, wouldn't it be easier to simply install Photoshop on the new computer and move all of the files over to the new computer?
 
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i think it wold be easyest to just have it as a d drive and pull everything you need from it their might be a conflict if its a ide drive instead of sata.
 
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Ok, a few questions.
1. Is the hard drive SATA or IDE?
2. If IDE does the windows 8 computer have an IDE port?
3. Which version of Photoshop is she running?
Please answer and I can help better.
 
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SATA. But I have no idea what version of photoshop she runs as the peripherals don't work
 
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If you want Photoshop on the new PC, you will have to install it. That has nothing to do with the old hard drive unless you happen to have the installer stored there. Pop the Photoshop disc(s) in the new PC and install. You can move what files you want from the old to the new afterwards.
 
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First off, a data drive is not married to an OS, it will work anywhere as long as it runs Windows, and of the same physical interface, which you confirmed SATA.

The bigger problem is, can you install photoshop, with the original license# on the new machine? Should, but if not, a call to Adobe ought to fix that problem.
 
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But it's not a data drive, it's a system drive with an XP install on it. You should be able to access most of the files but none of the installed programs will work because they are not installed on the Windows 8 machine. Nothing is registered.
 
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That exactly makes my point.

When that XP drive (with everything in it) is move to the Win8 machine, IT BECOMES A DATA DRIVE.

I said photoshop must be re-install, and yes any OTHER Apps as well but that's wasn't the OP's major concern, so I answer within what the OP asked and nothing more.
 
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That's not the point.
I'm asking because if Photoshop is too old it may have some some compatibility issues with Windows 8.
You will need to either A) Install Photoshop from the CD/DVD or B) Download and install.
You can access all the .psd files from the hard drive.
 
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