Re-installing XP onto a 2nd Hard Drive

[Daz]

I have XP installed onto a hard drive which is on a caddy. This installation
is rather old and it takes a long time to bootup. I think that it is
therefore time to do a re-install (I have tried everything to clean it up
but cannot improve the bootup time). The trouble is that a re-installation
is such a pain that I would like to be able to keep running my original
installation while building a new one.

Is it possible and legal to install my copy of XP onto a 2nd hard drive,
fitted into a separate caddy, on the same machine as my 1st installation?
This way I could keep running my original, slow to boot, installation and
then swap caddies to continue the laborious task on re-installing XP onto
the 2nd drive.

Regards, Daz

 

[Alias]

I have XP installed onto a hard drive which is on a caddy. This installation
is rather old and it takes a long time to bootup. I think that it is
therefore time to do a re-install (I have tried everything to clean it up
but cannot improve the bootup time). The trouble is that a re-installation
is such a pain that I would like to be able to keep running my original
installation while building a new one.

Is it possible and legal to install my copy of XP onto a 2nd hard drive,
fitted into a separate caddy, on the same machine as my 1st installation?
This way I could keep running my original, slow to boot, installation and
then swap caddies to continue the laborious task on re-installing XP onto
the 2nd drive.

Regards, Daz

Yes, you can. Just make sure that you're done before the 30 days are up
for activation on the new XP install.

Alias

 

[Daz]

Ah yes, thanks for that. Presumably, if I activated the new installation
before I was ready, I wouldn't be able to carry on using my old
installation?

Daz

 

[Alias]

Ah yes, thanks for that. Presumably, if I activated the new installation
before I was ready, I wouldn't be able to carry on using my old
installation?

Daz

If it's been over 120 days since the old computer was activated and you
haven't changed any hardware, you can activate the new and keep using
and updating the old one. Now, that's a violation of Microsoft's scammy
EULA and you'll have to decide if you want to do that or not.

Alias