I bought a new notebook computer to replace my old notebook -- a
Compaq Evo N1000v -- that came with Win XP Pro pre-installed. Win
XP Home was pre-installed on my new notebook. I want to transfer
the OS from my old notebook to my new notebook, an Acer Aspire
3502WLCi. (Incidentally, the old laptop uses, of course, the NTFS
file system, while my new laptop, surprisingly -- at least to me
-- employs the FAT32 file system.)

I've heard from one source that the Windows XP Pro license, as it
applies to pre-installed systems, prohibits transferring it to
another computer, even though the original computer on which it
was installed is no longer in use. Is this true?

If so and if I am stuck with the Win XP Home edition on my new
laptop, would it be beneficial to convert its FAT32 file system
to NTFS using the Command Prompt and executing the command: C:\>
CONVERT C: /fs:ntfs, where C: is a name of the drive I want to
convert?

Thank you very, very much.

Jeffrey W. Frazier

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