New license needed?

[Jan Vejling]

Hi all

A friend of mine has installed the same windows XP on 2 different HD's (but
otherwise the same machine). Am i correct in stating that he need's licenses
for this?
1 of the 2 installed versions declines to update (i bellieve the reason is
that it has been activated twice?)
How can he keep his current installation on the machine that declines to
update and make it "updateable". Can he purhase another windows XP and use
that one's licensekey to activate his current installation?
What would be your advice?

Thanks a lot

/Jan

 

[R. McCarty]

If the 2nd installation is not an "Image" or cloned instance of the 1st
then
there is a different hardware hash value from the 1st XP. This is likely why
the 2nd instance fails Activation. ( Unique disk Volume ID ).
A second license would fix the issue. I don't really understand the need
to have two XP instances on a single PC. I would simply image the primary
XP to the 2nd hard drive and then make any software changes that are
needed to it. This type of use would meet licensing requirements as only
a single XP instance could be used at one time.

 

[Jan Vejling]

Thank you very much.
I am having a little difficulty in understanding this (perhaps because
english is not my native language)
He has done a lot of work on "the second" (not updateable) harddrive, how
can i keep this work without reinstalling windows?
/T

 

[R. McCarty]

Then for the 2nd XP to be activated he'll have to get another license key.

 

[Alias]

Thank you very much.
I am having a little difficulty in understanding this (perhaps because
english is not my native language)
He has done a lot of work on "the second" (not updateable) harddrive,
how can i keep this work without reinstalling windows?
/T

If the "work" is just data, copy it to external media like an external
hard drive, pen drive or DVD. Then copy it to the activated hard drive.
Once done, format the unactivated hard drive and clone the working one
to it and then you will have two legal XP drives.

Alias

 

[Roy Smith]

Thank you very much.
I am having a little difficulty in understanding this (perhaps because
english is not my native language)
He has done a lot of work on "the second" (not updateable) harddrive,
how can i keep this work without reinstalling windows?
/T

What kind of "work" are we talking about? If it's just user created
files, such as word processor documents, spreadsheets and so on, just
copy them to the legal copy of Windows. In the Windows that has been
activated, open My Computer. Do you see the drive that contains the
other copy of windows? If so, then open another instance of my computer
and drag and drop your files from one drive to the other.

 

[Randem]

If it is an illegal copy, when you attempt to update it Microsoft will
redirect you to their Update Windows License page where you can purchase a
legitimate copy for $149.00 US. Your Windows will be updated by the download
and they will send you a licensed CD also.

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[Jan Vejling]

Thank you all for replying!

/Jan