Re: REINSTALLING WINDOWS XP ON NEW HARDRIVE
From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 05/18/04
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Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 15:52:44 +0100
Izz wrote:
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>My problem is, that I plan on replacing my original old
>hard drive with a brand new drive and using the new hard
>drive as my startup, C: drive.
>
>It is my understanding that I am only able to
>activate = (register) my license only once on one
>computer. How do I explain to Microsoft that I am not
>pirating, or copying, or trying to use it on two
>different computers at the same time????
First - your understanding is wrong. You can activate as many times as
you like on the same (or substantially the same) hardware. Even if you
make a *lot* of changes you can still re-activate by phoning in to
explain. Read up at www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm
So - two courses. *If* you want to start over again clean, install
after booting the CD with the new HD installed, and activate after the
system has settled down a day or two. If it is over 120 days since you
last did, it will go through on the net just as the first time
Or - if you would rather retain the present setup exactly, just
transferred to a new hard disk, use a clone copying tool - what I use
for this is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30
day full functional trial)
-- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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