I personally had to activate mine twice last week because
of a start up problem, so I don't see why you should have
any trouble doing it again.

>-----Original Message-----
>can I activate win xp more than once? Anew harddrive
>with a clean install and i/m being ask to activate and i
>did this on my old hdrive. thanks chip
>.
>

If you change certain compnents within your pc you will
be asked to reactivate - a hard drive is one such
component that requires a reactivation. You may have to
telephone the toll free number for activation, but you
should have no problems reactivating.
One tip, however, after reading Alisons reply. Never
activate straight away. You have 30 days to activate. Run
your machine for a week or two first to see that xp is
working ok before activating. This will prevent the need
to activate two or three times in one week. This also
applies if you have to reinstall xp.

Hope this helps

John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert
>-----Original Message-----
>I personally had to activate mine twice last week
because
>of a start up problem, so I don't see why you should
have
>any trouble doing it again.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>can I activate win xp more than once? Anew harddrive
>>with a clean install and i/m being ask to activate and
i
>>did this on my old hdrive. thanks chip
>>.
>>
>.
>

I wasn't given thirty days. It wouldn't let me log on
without activating. My system was in shambles though, so
this may have been a special case.