a disaster recovery restore from backup

[boomer]

HD failure -1, Power surge -2, (but this time backups
were made!)

If REstoring from backup will I be forced to pay to RE-
"activate" Windows XP?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

No.
Worst case is a 5 minute call to Microsoft.
If all you are doing is restoring data from back-up, it should not be
necessary at all.
If you are reloading, reactivation will be necessary.

 

[Michael McCartney [MSFT]]

The only reason that a restore from backup should cause you to have to
reactivate is if you restore to a system which is of radically different
hardware. When I refer to different hardware I mean the motherboard of the
box is different or there is enough of a difference in the device tree to
make the os believe that this is a different system than the one it was
originally activated on. If you are restoring a valid os to different
hardware there is nothing fundamentally wrong with this provided that the
same copy of the os does not exist still on another system which is still
in use. In other words, if you activate the os on one system, continue to
use that system, back it up and use that backup to deploy a second system
without removing the original then you will have probems.

If you do restore the os to new hardware you will have to reactivate.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Who the hell are you replying to????



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