Ghosting

[Guest]

Would it be legal to ghost a drive with Windows XP on it and put it into
another computer as long as I own 2 copies of Windows XP?

Or would I have to change the key on the ghosted?

 

[Jon_Hildrum]

If you have two licenses, you can have two installations. You would need to
change the key on the ghosted one and probably perform a repair install.

It is unlikely that the two computers have exactly the same hardware

 

[David H. Lipman]

Yes that would be legal. However, for the Ghost process to work, the two platforms would
have to have 99% of the same hardware or be the exact same model platform. Otherwise WinXP
will fail to boot.

--
Dave




| Would it be legal to ghost a drive with Windows XP on it and put it into
| another computer as long as I own 2 copies of Windows XP?
|
| Or would I have to change the key on the ghosted?

 

[Jack Gillis]

Yes that would be legal. However, for the Ghost process to work, the
two platforms would
have to have 99% of the same hardware or be the exact same model
platform. Otherwise WinXP
will fail to boot.

Yes, it probably might fail to boot but all is not lost yet. I have
found that running a repair/install corrected the failure to boot
although in one case, as I recall, I had to make a phone call to get it
re-activated. I guess that was because of an extreme difference between
the hardware. The phone call was painless.

 

[David H. Lipman]

If the two share similar, but different, chip-sets a repair install *may* work. For example
both Intel chip-sets. However, a repair install may also fail if the source was an Intel
chip-set and the destination was a VIA chip-set. The differences are too much to overcome
and the repair won't work.

--
Dave




|
| | > Yes that would be legal. However, for the Ghost process to work, the
| > two platforms would
| > have to have 99% of the same hardware or be the exact same model
| > platform. Otherwise WinXP
| > will fail to boot.
| >
| > --
| > Dave
| >
|
| Yes, it probably might fail to boot but all is not lost yet. I have
| found that running a repair/install corrected the failure to boot
| although in one case, as I recall, I had to make a phone call to get it
| re-activated. I guess that was because of an extreme difference between
| the hardware. The phone call was painless.
|
| >
| >
| >
| > | > | Would it be legal to ghost a drive with Windows XP on it and put it
| > into
| > | another computer as long as I own 2 copies of Windows XP?
| > |
| > | Or would I have to change the key on the ghosted?
| >
| >
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