Activate Windows for the second time?

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From: Tony (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:08:46 -0700

When there is a hardware change (HDD, or anything else
small, yet major), I believe you need to call MS to get
it 're-activated'.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have 2 hard drives on my computer. I unhooked the
Windows XP boot drive
>because I wanted to install another OS on the other one
and set the fresh
>disk as a master by jumper. My computer hung up, so I
replaced everything
>like it was before I unhooked the boot drive, and
started up. When I tried
>to log on, Windows said that my hardware had changed,
and I had to
>re-activate. I couldn't reactivate with the old code,
and now I have 3 days
>to reactivate, or I can't use Windows. I use Windows XP
Home SP2. I don't
>know why Windows won't let me keep working when I had
the same hardware
>attached. Can anyone help me out here?
>.
>

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