Re: Product Activation and Partition copies

without triggering product activation?

My answer to you is


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"Chris Bennett" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eo8pb1hcejjj71l2tfgt0eg2kvc8lgur1f@xxxxxxxxxx
> I have just bought a copy of XP Pro SP2.
>
> Currently I use Win98SE and have three "C" partitions on my machine.
> All have Windows 98 on them.
>
> The first partition is my production version of Win98SE.
>
> When I want to test new software (or an upgrade), I copy my production
> Windows into the second partition. Then I reboot to that partition and
> run my test. The other "C" partitions are hidden so my "D" and "E"
> hard drives never get remapped.
>
> My question is:
>
> Will this work OK with Windows XP Professional SP2 without triggering
> product activation? (I will load XP into partition 1 and activate
> before I do any partition copying)
>
> Can I have 3 copies of Windows XP - one in each partition. I usually
> boot into partition 3 to run Partition Magic Pro 7 since it does not
> have to boot into DOS mode to copy partition 1 to partition 2?
>
> Chris
>
.

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