Travis said:
I have an 80 gig hard drive as C and a 120 gig hard drive as D on my
computer. I plan on physically switching the hard drives around so the 120
gig HD is the master and the 80 gig is the slave. How will this affect the
activation on XP? Will this count as a component change or not since I'll
still be using the same hard drives. Thanks.
There will be a component change, of sorts, but that's largely
irrelevant. As you'll likely reinstall WinXP onto the new hard drive,
you will certainly have to activate the new installation. This however,
shouldn't be a problem.
There's no limit to the number of times you can reinstall and activate
the same WinXP license on the same PC. Nor is there ever a charge. Nor
does a Product Key (so long as it's not an evaluation license) ever
expire. If it's been more than 120 days since you last activated that
specific Product Key, you'll most likely be able to activate via the
Internet without problem. If it's been less, you might have to make a 5
minute phone call.
Here are the facts pertaining to activation:
Piracy Basics - Microsoft Product Activation
http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/basics/activation/
Windows Product Activation (WPA)
http://www.aumha.org/a/wpa.htm
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