Does adding secondary hard drives affect XP activation?

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Tommorow I'll get XP delivered and intend to install it and activate it
but on Wednesday I'll get two secondary storage hard drives delivered
and intend to install them, will adding them affect the XP activation?
 
Tommorow I'll get XP delivered and intend to install it and activate it
but on Wednesday I'll get two secondary storage hard drives delivered
and intend to install them, will adding them affect the XP activation?
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Not unless you plan to install the same copy of XP on one or both of
them. If they are only going to be used for storage, you can add as many
as your computer can handle, move them to another computer, etc. WPA
only keeps track of the Master hard drive where XP is installed.

Alias
 
Tommorow I'll get XP delivered and intend to install it and activate it
but on Wednesday I'll get two secondary storage hard drives delivered
and intend to install them, will adding them affect the XP activation?
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Shouldn't, but since your doing both so closely together, why not go ahead
and install XP, and just hold off
on activating it until you get your secondary drives installed?

Don Burnette
 
Tommorow I'll get XP delivered and intend to install it and activate it
but on Wednesday I'll get two secondary storage hard drives delivered
and intend to install them, will adding them affect the XP activation?
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Changing three pieces of hardware requires a reactivation (the cpu
counts as two) there are exceptions.

As mention'd stick the HD in first then install XP, you start with
three hardware changes still available.
http://www.licenturion.com/xp/fully-licensed-wpa.txt
 
Tommorow I'll get XP delivered and intend to install it and activate it
but on Wednesday I'll get two secondary storage hard drives delivered
and intend to install them, will adding them affect the XP activation?
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It didn't for me.
 
Tommorow I'll get XP delivered and intend to install it and activate
it but on Wednesday I'll get two secondary storage hard drives
delivered and intend to install them, will adding them affect the XP
activation?
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Shouldn't - I swap data drives in and out of my system regularly.
Specifically, when someone brings me a drive with the OS so buggered it
won't run, I plug it into my system, backup the data, then pull it out and
return it to the original system. I do that as often as several times a
month.
 
Toolman Tim said:
Shouldn't - I swap data drives in and out of my system regularly.
Specifically, when someone brings me a drive with the OS so buggered
it won't run, I plug it into my system, backup the data, then pull it
out and return it to the original system. I do that as often as
several times a month.
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Its easier to image it over the lan using True Image
booted from CD on the buggered system.
 
Rod Speed said:
Its easier to image it over the lan using True Image
booted from CD on the buggered system.
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That of course is assuming that said PC has a network card in it (which
surprisingly, some still don't), the PC is otherwise working, and you
have the time to wait for a transfer over a network connection - knowing
that it will also bog down the network.
 
That of course is assuming that said PC has a network
card in it (which surprisingly, some still don't),
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Easier to add a NIC temporarily than to move the drive.
the PC is otherwise working,
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He just said that the OS is buggered, not the hardware.
and you have the time to wait for a transfer over a network connection
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You have to wait with the drive physically moved too.

Once you have to wait, it doesnt really matter how long,
you do something else while its happening anyway.
- knowing that it will also bog down the network.
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No it wont if you've implemented it properly.
 
Tommorow I'll get XP delivered and intend to install it and activate it
but on Wednesday I'll get two secondary storage hard drives delivered
and intend to install them, will adding them affect the XP activation?
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Just make the one on the same ribbon connector as the HDD with the
operating system the slave and the other one the opposite of what your
CD or DVD drive is. If there is nothing on the others there will be no
conflict with the operating system.
 
Rod Speed said:
Easier to add a NIC temporarily than to move the drive.
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True...most the of time.
He just said that the OS is buggered, not the hardware.
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okay then.
You have to wait with the drive physically moved too.

Once you have to wait, it doesnt really matter how long,
you do something else while its happening anyway.
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Well, that depends on whether or not you're pressed for time on either
a, getting the machine up and running again
or
b, getting the files recovered.

Makes quite a difference, especially when the drive you're backing up
has over 160gigs worth of data on it..
No it wont if you've implemented it properly.
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Implemented what? Unless you're using a crossover cable between the two
computers, you're transferring large amounts of data over what is
essentially a shared connection, in which case you have three choices:
One, just do it all in full and hog part of the network for however long
it takes to transfer the data

Two, limit the speed at which the data is being transferred, which of
course will increase the time it takes to back up everything

or Three, make the data transfer in short bursts rather than going
constant which again increases the time it takes to back up everything.


Granted there are certain times where I would use a network connection
to do this, like if I had to do this with a laptop and removing the
drive involved lots of dismantling, but most of the time I do it the
other way.
 
David said:
True...most the of time.


okay then.


Well, that depends on whether or not you're pressed for time on either
a, getting the machine up and running again
or
b, getting the files recovered.

Makes quite a difference, especially when the drive you're backing up
has over 160gigs worth of data on it..


Implemented what? Unless you're using a crossover cable between the
two computers, you're transferring large amounts of data over what is
essentially a shared connection, in which case you have three choices:
One, just do it all in full and hog part of the network for however
long it takes to transfer the data

Two, limit the speed at which the data is being transferred, which of
course will increase the time it takes to back up everything

or Three, make the data transfer in short bursts rather than going
constant which again increases the time it takes to back up
everything.


Granted there are certain times where I would use a network connection
to do this, like if I had to do this with a laptop and removing the
drive involved lots of dismantling, but most of the time I do it the
other way.
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Agreed - I can get a hard drive out of most systems in just a few minutes,
but laptops can take much longer. It's much faster to do a drive to drive
transfer than over a network, plus one more advantage: virus scan! I keep my
PC updated, so I'm not copying infected files, which would then re-infect
upon returning to the original system.
 
Rod said:
Its easier to image it over the lan using True Image
booted from CD on the buggered system.
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Maybe, if I had a copy of True Image. Never needed it, so never bought it.
 
Howdy!

Er, no, the CPU does NOT count as two - a NIC does.
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Let's see.

double word | offset | length | bit-field value based on

H2 | 3 | 6 | CPU serial number string

H2 | 25 | 3 | processor model string


Looks like 2 to me. But eh. What do I know?

RwP
 
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