Repair Install

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Alias said:
Does a repair install require product activation like a clean install
does?

Alias
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No. With a repair install, you are just repairing the os. As a side note,
depending on what type of os you have, reactivating is not done with a clean
install, either.. I have an oem, reactivated, and have done at least 3 clean
installs that I can recall, and I never had to reactivate the product.
 
Every repair install I've ever done (lots, probably over 400 total) I've had
to activate via microsoft... And a lot of the time, I had to do it over the
phone...

It's really not that hard, I used to just ask for "rajeeth" to activate all
my stuff, he was a no nonsense kinda guy, and when I was calling in to
activate 5-6 computers at a time... He always hooked us up..

I don't think he works there anymore though


Does a repair install require product activation like a clean install does?

Alias
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Office said:
Every repair install I've ever done (lots, probably over 400 total) I've had
to activate via microsoft... And a lot of the time, I had to do it over the
phone...

It's really not that hard, I used to just ask for "rajeeth" to activate all
my stuff, he was a no nonsense kinda guy, and when I was calling in to
activate 5-6 computers at a time... He always hooked us up..

I don't think he works there anymore though




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I have an English version of XP but live in Spain. I wonder who I will
have to call to activate, someone in Bolivia?

Alias
 
lvee said:
No. With a repair install, you are just repairing the os. As a side note,
depending on what type of os you have, reactivating is not done with a clean
install, either.. I have an oem, reactivated, and have done at least 3 clean
installs that I can recall, and I never had to reactivate the product.
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I don't buy computers with the OS already installed.

Alias
 
Office said:
Every repair install I've ever done (lots, probably over 400 total) I've had
to activate via microsoft... And a lot of the time, I had to do it over the
phone...
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Even if it's been over 128 days since the last hardware change/activation?

Alias
 
Ya, you'll probably have to reactivate...

Won't call bolivia though, rajeeth said he was in some town in india... Nice
guy that rajeeth


Even if it's been over 128 days since the last hardware change/activation?

Alias
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I have an oem, reactivated,

I meant PREactivated

"course, if I'd have had my mind reading cap on I'd have known that, ;)
 
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