Can XP Home or Pro be installed on a second HDD, on a machine with...

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Can XP Home or Pro be installed on a second HDD, on a new machine with...Windows
Media Center Edition 2005 preinstalled (on an HP computer)?
 
What?
Are you saying Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional can be installed
on one desktop and one laptop at the same time?
If so, you are wrong, read the EULA.

But some versions of Microsoft Office allow installation on more than one
computer.
 
sgopus said:
The license states one desktop one laptop, per license.
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One program will NOT work on Win MCE 2005, so the user needs Win XP Home or Pro
in order to use that program. If a Win XP Home or Pro Retail or OEM was
purchased, would it be able to be installed on a 2nd HDD in this HP machine I'm
looking at for sale for $690 at Staples?
 
Cymbal Man Freq. said:
One program will NOT work on Win MCE 2005, so the user needs Win XP Home
or Pro
in order to use that program. If a Win XP Home or Pro Retail or OEM was
purchased, would it be able to be installed on a 2nd HDD in this HP
machine I'm
looking at for sale for $690 at Staples?
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Yes and can be installed and you can set up a dual boot system where you can
choose which OS to boot.
 
Cymbal Man Freq. said:
Can XP Home or Pro be installed on a second HDD, on a new machine with...Windows
Media Center Edition 2005 preinstalled (on an HP computer)?
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I've got XP home (pre installed) on C drive, and XP pro on E drive, so
I guess so.
 
sgopus said:
The license states one desktop one laptop, per license.
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If by "one desktop one laptop, per license," you mean that you can install a
single license on both a desktop and a laptop, that is completely false.
The rule is quite clear. It's one copy (or one license) for each computer.

There's nothing new here. This is exactly the same rule that's been in
effect on every version of Windows starting with Windows 3.1. The only thing
new with XP is that there's now an enforcement mechanism.
 
Cymbal said:
One program will NOT work on Win MCE 2005, so the user needs Win XP
Home or Pro in order to use that program.
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What program is that? I'm not aware of any program that will work under XP
Home or Professional, but not MCE, and I doubt very much if there are any.
How do you know it won't work? Have you tried it? If it's just that the
program's documentation says XP Home or Professional required, I recommend
that you try it. It almost certainly *will* work.

If a Win XP Home or Pro
Retail or OEM was purchased, would it be able to be installed on a
2nd HDD in this HP machine I'm looking at for sale for $690 at
Staples?
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If you're asking whether you can dual-boot XP Home or Professional with MCE,
the answer is yes. A second HD is not necessarily reuired. If you have
enough disk space, you can do it on a second partition on a single drive.
 
sgopus said:
The license states one desktop one laptop, per license.
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The Microsoft Office license says that, the licenses for Microsoft's
operating systems have *never* said that.
 
Ken said:
If by "one desktop one laptop, per license," you mean that you can install a
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Sounds like a line from the Deer Hunter or Sniper movies............

BTW the Sniper series of movies is nice.
 
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