Upgrading system to larger Hard Drive

[Al Rodemann]

I am running out of space on my hard drive which has my
registered copy of Windows XP. I want to buy another hard
drive, much larger, and using Norton's Ghost program
transfer all of the present hard drive to the new one.
How can I do this and still retain my registration of XP.
Would I have to buy another license? I have used the
Ghost program successfully when transferring Windows 98
from a 10GB hard drive to a 30GB drive on my laptop. I
then reformatted the old drive to remove the Windows 98.

 

[Jerry]

Registration and/or activation will not be a problem. If required just call
Microsoft.

 

[CS]

I am running out of space on my hard drive which has my
registered copy of Windows XP. I want to buy another hard
drive, much larger, and using Norton's Ghost program
transfer all of the present hard drive to the new one.
How can I do this and still retain my registration of XP.
Would I have to buy another license? I have used the
Ghost program successfully when transferring Windows 98
from a 10GB hard drive to a 30GB drive on my laptop. I
then reformatted the old drive to remove the Windows 98.

You may have to activate again, but a new license is not needed. I've
moved my copy of XP Home twice to a newer larger hard drive and did
not have to activate again.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am running out of space on my hard drive which has my
registered copy of Windows XP. I want to buy another hard
drive, much larger, and using Norton's Ghost program
transfer all of the present hard drive to the new one.
How can I do this and still retain my registration of XP.
Would I have to buy another license?

Unless you have changed quite a lot of other hardware too, there will be
no need to reactivate. Read up at www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm, and
note the Hint in 'Format a Hard drive' which will reduce the number of
'votes' lost to the single one of the drive itself - and not even that
if you retain the old one around still when you boot the new one