No, most new hard drives comes with a floppy disc that includes software to
clone your drives. if you want something very easy to use by Drive Copy,
but you will not need to purchase a new key from Microsoft.
If it requires reactivation, so what. 10 minutes out of your day.
Buy the new drive. Most of them come with utilities to transfer
your old system to your new drive, usually reactivation is not
required.
I am out of disk space. I want to purchase a new
(larger) hard drive and move my XP to the new drive. I
am concerned that it will require another activation if I
do. I only want one copy but I want it on the new
drive. Any ideas?
Thanks Shenan, but it is not the time that I am concerned
about. I don't want to have to buy another activation.
I have already paid for XP and don't want to pay again
just so I can move it to another drive.
If it costs you money to reactivate, you are doing something wrong. You
should be able to reactivate over the Internet. Also, if all you are
changing is the hard drive and that is it and you use the supplied softare
to copy the drive image to the new drive, you should have NO problem with
activation, as it should not ask anyway.
