New Install of OEM WinXP

[Bruce Chambers]

Perhaps I should clear some things up.

I had a PC that had Win98 installed on it. Then, as part of an upgrade, I
bought a bigger hard disk, that came bundled with a copper-coloured WinXP
Pro CD.

When I installed the new hard disk, I installed the copy of WinXP.

Now, I want to build a new PC, and use the old hard disk as a data backup
drive.

So, as I will still be using the hard disk that the WinXP CD came with, can
I still use the OEM copy of WinXP?

Not legitimately, no. As you've been repeatedly told, that OEM license
is *permanently* bound to the first *computer* on which it was
installed. Moving a hard drive won't change that.

Now, would it work? Probably, as it sounds like you have an unbranded,
generic OEM CD. In the final analysis, it boils down to a simple matter
of integrity. If you've no qualms about breaking a legally enforceable
contract (the Windows EULA) into which you freely entered, and don't
mind telling the world that - in effect - your signature on a contract
or your given word are without value, go right ahead and re-use that OEM
license.


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[Alias]

Don't need to, it asks you questions about first time install, only on 1
PC, etc, as long as you answer "correctly" it gets you activated.

That's fine but CAN you hold on for a real person?

Alias

 

[Alias]

No. As several of us has told you, your OEM license is tied to the
first computer that XP is installed on, not to the hard drive.

Oh, bullshit. MS has yet to define what a computer is or isn't.

Similarly, if you were keeping the computer, but replacing the hard
drive, you *could* continue to use the same OEM copy of Windows.

IBID.

Alias

 

[Alias]

Not legitimately, no. As you've been repeatedly told, that OEM
license is *permanently* bound to the first *computer* on which it was
installed. Moving a hard drive won't change that.

Being as Redmond hasn't defined what a computer is, the old hard drive
was updated with new computer parts and installing XP on the upgraded
computer is okey dokey with the EULA.

Now, would it work? Probably, as it sounds like you have an
unbranded, generic OEM CD. In the final analysis, it boils down to a
simple matter of integrity.

The fact that generic OEMs are tied to something that MS doesn't define
is a matter of integrity, the lack of which falls right on Microsoft's
lap. The fact that your repeat the same FALSE FUD you always do reveals
that you have no integrity either.

If you've no qualms about breaking a

legally enforceable contract (the Windows EULA) into which you freely
entered, and don't mind telling the world that - in effect - your
signature on a contract or your given word are without value, go right
ahead and re-use that OEM license.

Heaven forbid someone should decide what to do with what they bought and
should interpret the scammy EULA to their needs!

Alias

 

[norm]

Then the OEM license is destroyed with it.

Like license plates on a totaled vehicle - the plates cannot legally be
moved to another car.

It might be true where you live, but it is not the case where I live.

 

[David B.]

I don't think so, never got to a point where I needed one, why would you
need to?

 

[Alias]

I don't think so, never got to a point where I needed one, why would you
need to?

If the automated activation failed, of course.

Alias

 

[Allen]

That's fine but CAN you hold on for a real person?

Alias

OOPS! That should be ANY people.
Allen

 

[David B.]

As long as you provide the "correct" (not always the truth) answers, it
works. The automated assistant basically asks you all the same stuff the
live rep used to if the automated activation used to fail.

 

[Alias]

As long as you provide the "correct" (not always the truth) answers, it
works. The automated assistant basically asks you all the same stuff the
live rep used to if the automated activation used to fail.

I guess that's one way of avoiding the higher value of the rupee vs. the
dollar ...

Alias

 

[vernon]

No. By your own admission, you have an OEM license for WinXP MCE that
came with the Dell. 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'll have to purchase a new WinXP license to go with the new
computer.

ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Try asking MS. Oh, yes you haven't read
, not required to talk to
MS.

 

[vernon]

YES. If it's been over 120 days since the last activation, you will
activate on line no problem. If not, you'll have to use phone activation.
Just tell them you replaced the hard drive (not that you have to give them
*any* information other than the long number that appears when you choose
phone activation).

Alias

Yep, all of the can't do and ask the correct question answers, I have
successfully moved, restored and a phone call or just re-registering does
the trick.

Thanks to all of the phony WMVs, especially the non answering "how to ask a
question" idiot

 

[Plato]

I have a PC with an OEM copy of WinXP Pro, and I will be buying a new PC
soon. I'm building my own, so I will be utilising new components rather
than using any old ones, or going for a shop-built one.

My question relates to my current copy of WinXP. I received it with my last
PC, and I am wondering if I will be able to load it onto my new one? The

It depends on if it's an OEM copy from a specific PC maker or a real OEM
non-bios locked version.

 

[David B.]

If your referring to me, get a clue before you call someone an idiot, that
is called a signature and appears in every one of my posts, newbie.

 

[Duncs]

As it was included with a hard disk that I purchased, I wouold assume the
later.

Duncs