WGA strangeness

[Colonel Blip]

Hello, All!

I have a desktop with 3 boot partitions with XP-SP2. All are up to date with
patches. The other day one of them began giving me the 'counterfeit copy'
nonsense. I checked the version of wga and it is 1.5.540.0 for all three
partitions. The other two boots work fine (as they should!). Any ideas why
two partitions (OS installs) and not the other would be fine but this one be
coming up counterfeit. I recall the OS is legal on two computers and I have
it on my desktop as described and my LT as the second computer. No problem
on the LT either. Is it possible that MS is somehow construing 3 boot OS
partitions as 1 too many and therefore calling it a forgery?

Thanks,
Colonel Blip.
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I believe that XP's license only permits one install on a PC. If you are
using 3 booting version, then you would need 3 licenses.

 

[Pop`]

I believe that XP's license only permits one install on a PC. If you
are using 3 booting version, then you would need 3 licenses.

Correct.

 

[DL]

but unless there has been a change to the wga tool, that shouldnt give this
result should it?

I believe that XP's license only permits one install on a PC. If you are
using 3 booting version, then you would need 3 licenses.