recently my hard drive went bad, so when i got it replaced
i also removed a 5.25 floppy drive that i no longer
needed, then did a clean install and now when i try to
activate windows it give me an error that says something
like i have activated it too many times. i was under the
impression the i could install windows as many time as i
wanted on my computer, did the hardware change cause
this? thanks in advance

Hello

See links below

Activation Process for Win XP Read info below
http://www.aumha.org/a/wpa.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/basics/activation/




Alvin


Tony wrote:

> recently my hard drive went bad, so when i got it replaced
> i also removed a 5.25 floppy drive that i no longer
> needed, then did a clean install and now when i try to
> activate windows it give me an error that says something
> like i have activated it too many times. i was under the
> impression the i could install windows as many time as i
> wanted on my computer, did the hardware change cause
> this? thanks in advance

Tony wrote:
| recently my hard drive went bad, so when i got it replaced
| i also removed a 5.25 floppy drive that i no longer
| needed, then did a clean install and now when i try to
| activate windows it give me an error that says something
| like i have activated it too many times. i was under the
| impression the i could install windows as many time as i
| wanted on my computer, did the hardware change cause
| this? thanks in advance

Just what does _something like_ mean????


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