Clean XP Install from old CD???

[Guest]

Due to a lightning strike that blew my mobo through my ethernet port/cable
modem (!), I am building a new PC. Since my old one is trash, I want to
reuse my XP Home and install it clean on the new system. However, my CD's
are over two years old and don't even include SP2.

Is my only option to install the ancient version and download all the
updates, or can I somehow download a fully patched current version and
install, then activate using my license/credentials from the original version
I purchased? If yes (hopeful), then how do I download/burn that
patched/clean version?

Thank you.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Due to a lightning strike that blew my mobo through my ethernet
port/cable modem (!), I am building a new PC. Since my old one is
trash, I want to reuse my XP Home and install it clean on the new
system. However, my CD's are over two years old and don't even
include SP2.

Is my only option to install the ancient version and download all the
updates, or can I somehow download a fully patched current version and
install, then activate using my license/credentials from the original
version I purchased? If yes (hopeful), then how do I download/burn
that patched/clean version?

Thank you.

Firstly, is this an OEM or retail copy of XP Home? If the latter, you can
use it on any hardware you wish - if it was bundled with your original
computer, you can't.

You can either install from the CD and d/l SP2, or you can download SP2 and
slipstream - but either way, you'll have to download SP2, so I'm not sure
how much of a timesaver that will actually be.

Lots of slipstreaming help ...
http://www.google.com/search?source...6-32,GGLJ:en&q=slipstream+CD+SP2+"Windows+XP"

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

You can download SP2, but will have to go to Windows Update for the more
recent Updates - it's a 266 MB download:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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[Ken Blake]

Due to a lightning strike that blew my mobo through my ethernet
port/cable modem (!), I am building a new PC. Since my old one is
trash, I want to reuse my XP Home and install it clean on the new
system. However, my CD's are over two years old and don't even
include SP2.

Is my only option to install the ancient version and download all the
updates, or can I somehow download a fully patched current version and
install, then activate using my license/credentials from the original
version I purchased? If yes (hopeful), then how do I download/burn
that patched/clean version?

Create a slipstreamed version, inculding SP2 (see
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=7262), then download and install the
post-SP2 upatches.

 

[Ken Blake]

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Firstly, is this an OEM or retail copy of XP Home? If the latter, you
can use it on any hardware you wish - if it was bundled with your
original computer, you can't.

A little clarification here, if I may. An OEM copy may not be moved to
another computer, whether or not it came bundled with the original computer

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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A little clarification here, if I may. An OEM copy may not be moved to
another computer, whether or not it came bundled with the original
computer

I'd always thought that, too, but as far as I know, you can legally purchase
OEM software that is bundled with, say, a small piece of hardware, and that
is technically within the license agreement. You can also buy OEM
software/OSes through newegg and others.

I try to stay out of licensing discussions whenever possible....they make my
head hurt. Speaking of which, ouch.

 

[Ken Blake]

In Ken Blake <[email protected]> typed:

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
A little clarification here, if I may. An OEM copy may not be moved
to another computer, whether or not it came bundled with the original
computer

I'd always thought that, too, but as far as I know, you can legally
purchase OEM software that is bundled with, say, a small piece of
hardware, and that is technically within the license agreement.

Yes, that's true. My point was that if you bought a generic OEM copy of
Windows with such hardware and installed it on a computer, the license for
that copy of Windows becomes tied to the computer it's installed on (which
may or may not be the hardware you bought it with). It then may never be
legally moved to another computer, just as if it came installed on the
computer.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In

In Ken Blake <[email protected]> typed:

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
A little clarification here, if I may. An OEM copy may not be moved
to another computer, whether or not it came bundled with the
original computer

I'd always thought that, too, but as far as I know, you can legally
purchase OEM software that is bundled with, say, a small piece of
hardware, and that is technically within the license agreement.

Yes, that's true. My point was that if you bought a generic OEM copy
of Windows with such hardware and installed it on a computer, the
license for that copy of Windows becomes tied to the computer it's
installed on (which may or may not be the hardware you bought it
with). It then may never be legally moved to another computer, just
as if it came installed on the computer.

No kiddin' ....so, let's say you buy it with a video card, and put the video
card in the new computer? No dice?

Anyway, as mentioned, I tend to steer clear of anything that even smells of
licensing.

 

[Ghostrider]

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:

In Ken Blake <[email protected]> typed:

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:

A little clarification here, if I may. An OEM copy may not be moved
to another computer, whether or not it came bundled with the original
computer

I'd always thought that, too, but as far as I know, you can legally
purchase OEM software that is bundled with, say, a small piece of
hardware, and that is technically within the license agreement.

Yes, that's true. My point was that if you bought a generic OEM copy of
Windows with such hardware and installed it on a computer, the license for
that copy of Windows becomes tied to the computer it's installed on (which
may or may not be the hardware you bought it with). It then may never be
legally moved to another computer, just as if it came installed on the
computer.

And there is the scenario whereby the OP is the original builder
of the system that got electrocuted and has elected to repair the
system by salvaging all of the remaining parts and installing a
replacement motherboard to restore the computer. Just mentioning
this to demonstrate the vagueness of the EULA language. The ideal
solution might be something like "one windows version per license
per person per built machine" and leave it at that.

 

[Ken Blake]

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:

In Ken Blake <[email protected]> typed:

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:

A little clarification here, if I may. An OEM copy may not be moved
to another computer, whether or not it came bundled with the
original computer

I'd always thought that, too, but as far as I know, you can legally
purchase OEM software that is bundled with, say, a small piece of
hardware, and that is technically within the license agreement.

Yes, that's true. My point was that if you bought a generic OEM copy
of Windows with such hardware and installed it on a computer, the
license for that copy of Windows becomes tied to the computer it's
installed on (which may or may not be the hardware you bought it
with). It then may never be legally moved to another computer, just
as if it came installed on the computer.

And there is the scenario whereby the OP is the original builder
of the system that got electrocuted and has elected to repair the
system by salvaging all of the remaining parts and installing a
replacement motherboard to restore the computer. Just mentioning
this to demonstrate the vagueness of the EULA language.

Yes, I wasn't trying to address that at all. The entire question of what
constitutes the same computer--what or how much you can change without its
being a different computer, is very ambiguous. My guess is that Microsoft
wrote it that way on purpose.

The ideal
solution might be something like "one windows version per license
per person per built machine" and leave it at that.

The problem is that Microsoft probably sees the ideal solution very
differently from the way you and I and most customers do.

 

[Ken Blake]

In Ken Blake <[email protected]> typed:

No kiddin' ....so, let's say you buy it with a video card, and put
the video card in the new computer? No dice?

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean here by "no dice." If you install the OEM
version of Windows on the new computer, then that copy of Windows is tied to
that computer. That's true whether or not you installed the video card in
that computer, some other computer, or no computer at all.

Anyway, as mentioned, I tend to steer clear of anything that even
smells of licensing.

Understood, and I don't blame you. The subject is filled with ambiguities
that have never been resolved (and probably never will be) in a court of
law.