Re: XP Pro activation - false positive

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wyocowboy <wyocowboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|>I work in a computer repair shop where it is all-too-frequently necessary to
|>slave a customer's hard drive onto my XP Pro SP2 workstation to pull the data
|>off, scan for viruses, etc. I've done this quite a number of times without
|>issue. Recently, I connected a user's USB hard drive to my workstation while
|>it was powered off so that I could copy salvaged data onto it.
|>
|>Shortly after logging on, I was informed that I needed to activate my copy
|>of XP because my machine configuration had "changed significantly" or
|>something to that effect. After deciding that this was just about the most
|>idiotic thing I had seen lately (and I see quite a few), I went ahead and
|>activated it.

Read http://www.licenturion.com/xp/fully-licensed-wpa.txt
it will explain what your up against.



|>All was well for a while, until I connected another IDE hard drive to the
|>secondary channel (replacing the CD drive) and now I got a msg saying that
|>because my machine configuration had "changed significantly" I now have to
|>activate my copy of Office XP, so now, something even more idiotic has
|>occurred...
|>
|>Can anyone shed any light on what is going on? I am still booting off of the
|>same hard drive I've been using all along. These have been slave/auxilliary
|>drives. Why the hell should XP or Office care about adding another hard drive
|>to the system? Absolutely nothing else hardware-wise has changed on this
|>machine.
|>
|>The only thing I can think of is that the retarded activation detection
|>doesn't like it when I go back and forth between a hard drive and CD drive on
|>the secondary channel, 'x' number of times.


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  • Re: XP Pro activation - false positive
    ... > because my machine configuration had "changed significantly" I now have to ... Why the hell should XP or Office care about adding another hard ... > The only thing I can think of is that the retarded activation detection ... > the secondary channel, 'x' number of times. ...
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  • XP Pro activation - false positive
    ... slave a customer's hard drive onto my XP Pro SP2 workstation to pull the data ... because my machine configuration had "changed significantly" I now have to ... Why the hell should XP or Office care about adding another hard drive ... the secondary channel, 'x' number of times. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)