reinstalling xp home

[Julius]

My company just bought a computer with windows xp home. I
decided to upgrade it to xp pro using a full version. My
question is, can I use my xp home edition and reinstall it
on a different machine even after I activated it already?

 

[Chris Lanier]

No, you most likely have an OEM licence of XP Home which is bound to the
hardware it is sold with.

 

[S.Sengupta]

-----Original Message-----
My company just bought a computer with windows xp home. I
decided to upgrade it to xp pro using a full version. My
question is, can I use my xp home edition and reinstall it
on a different machine even after I activated it already?
.

Hello!
As per EULA you can only install on only one machine.
with regards/
ssg/pronetworks.org

 

[Ken Blake]

In

My company just bought a computer with windows xp home. I
decided to upgrade it to xp pro using a full version. My
question is, can I use my xp home edition and reinstall it
on a different machine even after I activated it already?

No. If the computer came with XP Home, it's an OEM version. The
OEM version's license ties it permanently to the first computer
it's installed on. It can never legally be moved to another
computer, sold, or given away.

 

[Alex Nichol]

My company just bought a computer with windows xp home. I
decided to upgrade it to xp pro using a full version. My
question is, can I use my xp home edition and reinstall it
on a different machine even after I activated it already?

A copy of XP that was bought preinstalled ('OEM') on a machine is
licensed solely to that machine, and may not be transferred.

The same applies if the 'full' Pro you have is an OEM one rather than a
retail one, and also that would not do an upgrade, only a clean install.

Your best course would be to get the Pro *upgrade* retail CD to do the
upgrade, and use the Pro one you have for some other machine - sell it
on, unused, if need be