Installing a previous activated OEM version of Windows XP

[Guest]

Is this possible? Installing an activated version of OEM XP on a new
machine. The original PC is broken.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

No. An OEM version of Windows XP cannot be transferred
to a different computer. Only a "Retail Version" offers this
flexibility.

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| Is this possible? Installing an activated version of OEM XP on a new
| machine. The original PC is broken.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

Is this possible? Installing an activated version of OEM XP on a new
machine. The original PC is broken.

Another ****tard who doesn't have the cranial capacity to read an EULA.

 

[jimbo]

Well, it all depends. If the original installation was more than 120
days ago, and if the CD came in one of those shrink wrapped packages
that comes with purchased hardware, it will most likely install and
activate on another computer just fine. But, if it is one of those CDs
provided by a PC maker and supplied with a purchased PC, who knows? Is
it legal? No.

Good luck, jimbo

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Is this possible? Installing an activated version of OEM XP on a new
machine. The original PC is broken.

As you state, you have an OEM license for WinXP. An OEM
version must be sold with a piece of hardware (normally a motherboard or
hard rive, if not an entire PC) and is _permanently_ bound to the first
PC on which it's installed. An OEM license, once installed, is not
legally transferable to another computer under _any_ circumstances.

You may use that OEM license only on the computer with which it was
purchased, and no other.

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[Guest]

Thanks for the info. I will have to find a retail version then.

Alan