Windows XP times One Hundred ??

[Mike]

I am thinking of installing a bunch of removable hard drives from dataport
http://www.cru-dataport.com/

I may need as many as 6 different hard drives, each one for a special
purpose
One for holding family photos, one for the kids, one for me,
one just for my wife, etc. etc. I may plan to get more later on also.

If I have windows XP installed on each and every hard drive
(so far that would be 6 installs) and all from the same single copy of
Windows XP. Is that a violation of the license ?

The way I have it figured, is that even though they are different
hard drives, it is the same single computer for all of them.
and therefore I only need just the one copy of windows.
and that I do not need to purchase additional licenses.
I did not see anything about this in my EULA

Does anyone know how this works ?
I want to be an honest person who believes
Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's and
Give unto Bill Gates what is Bill Gate's

Thanks
Mike

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I am thinking of installing a bunch of removable hard drives from
dataport http://www.cru-dataport.com/

I may need as many as 6 different hard drives, each one for a
special purpose
One for holding family photos, one for the kids, one for me,
one just for my wife, etc. etc. I may plan to get more later on
also.
If I have windows XP installed on each and every hard drive
(so far that would be 6 installs) and all from the same single copy
of Windows XP. Is that a violation of the license ?

The way I have it figured, is that even though they are different
hard drives, it is the same single computer for all of them.
and therefore I only need just the one copy of windows.
and that I do not need to purchase additional licenses.
I did not see anything about this in my EULA

Does anyone know how this works ?
I want to be an honest person who believes
Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's and
Give unto Bill Gates what is Bill Gate's

The EULA implies:
One license/install per computer.

Doesn't matter if you have 24 hard drives in that computer or one - if you
install Windows XP more than one (even on the same partition of a single
hard drive) - the restriction is basically that you need one license for
EACH install.

Will it work indefinitely? Probably.

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 20:24:11 -0600, "Shenan Stanley"

|Mike wrote:
|> I am thinking of installing a bunch of removable hard drives from
|> dataport http://www.cru-dataport.com/
|>
|> I may need as many as 6 different hard drives, each one for a
|> special purpose
|> One for holding family photos, one for the kids, one for me,
|> one just for my wife, etc. etc. I may plan to get more later on
|> also.
|> If I have windows XP installed on each and every hard drive
|> (so far that would be 6 installs) and all from the same single copy
|> of Windows XP. Is that a violation of the license ?
|>
|> The way I have it figured, is that even though they are different
|> hard drives, it is the same single computer for all of them.
|> and therefore I only need just the one copy of windows.
|> and that I do not need to purchase additional licenses.
|> I did not see anything about this in my EULA
|>
|> Does anyone know how this works ?
|> I want to be an honest person who believes
|> Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's and
|> Give unto Bill Gates what is Bill Gate's
|
|The EULA implies:
|One license/install per computer.
|
|Doesn't matter if you have 24 hard drives in that computer or one - if you
|install Windows XP more than one (even on the same partition of a single
|hard drive) - the restriction is basically that you need one license for
|EACH install.
|
|Will it work indefinitely? Probably.
|
|--
|Shenan Stanley
| MS-MVP

Copying 1 install of XP to another HD might not violate
wording of EULA depending on legal def of install.
Remember 'depends what def of "is" is'?

Just my 2¢ worth. Larry
Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.

 

[milleron]

I am thinking of installing a bunch of removable hard drives from dataport
http://www.cru-dataport.com/

I may need as many as 6 different hard drives, each one for a special
purpose
One for holding family photos, one for the kids, one for me,
one just for my wife, etc. etc. I may plan to get more later on also.

If I have windows XP installed on each and every hard drive
(so far that would be 6 installs) and all from the same single copy of
Windows XP. Is that a violation of the license ?

The way I have it figured, is that even though they are different
hard drives, it is the same single computer for all of them.
and therefore I only need just the one copy of windows.
and that I do not need to purchase additional licenses.
I did not see anything about this in my EULA

Does anyone know how this works ?
I want to be an honest person who believes
Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's and
Give unto Bill Gates what is Bill Gate's

Thanks
Mike

I cannot answer EULA questions, but what you're proposing sounds
outlandish. Why in the world do you want to install the operating
system multiple times just because you have multiple HDs? And if you
need six drives why don't you install one huge drive, partition it
with an active partition (for the one instance of the OS that you
actually need) and an Extended partition, and then create as many
logical drives as you need in the extended partition??

Ron

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I cannot answer EULA questions, but what you're proposing sounds
outlandish. Why in the world do you want to install the operating
system multiple times just because you have multiple HDs?

Maybe because the OP is a moron?

 

[Chuck]

It's commonly done for security reasons. Under certain security
restrictions, hard drives must be removable, and traceable to each user. In
some cases, the HD usage is limited to specific tasks. The major user has a
Large group license that can permit all sorts of things that us mere mortals
are forbidden.

 

[McGrandpa]

I cannot answer EULA questions, but what you're proposing sounds
outlandish. Why in the world do you want to install the operating
system multiple times just because you have multiple HDs? And if you
need six drives why don't you install one huge drive, partition it
with an active partition (for the one instance of the OS that you
actually need) and an Extended partition, and then create as many
logical drives as you need in the extended partition??

Ron

Or even have one permanent boot hard disk with the one installation of XP,
and several removable hd's for just data.
McG.

 

[Roberto]

I think you will be better served by purchasing one large HDD and
an external housing, then partition it to your requirements, keep it
simple !.

rgds
Roberto

 

[Talahasee]

Or even have one permanent boot hard disk with the one installation of XP,
and several removable hd's for just data.
McG.

What might make most sense -- and would certainly be easiest
to do-- would be to have one hard drive for your system,
which you have set up with yourself as the Administrator
(setting only YOU can change/ only YOU can install software,
et),

then have a separate -- say 80 Gb hard drive for each person
you mentioned. Get a separate hdd external enclosure-- these
can be had for $25 each. Making each hdd / enclosure setup
run $100 or less.

Add hard drives/enclosures as necessary. All each user need
do at that point is to plug in their external hard drive
"when it's their turn on the computer." In that way, you'd
have an unlimited number of secure hard drives without
having to install the OS a lot of times.


Good luck!


Tallahassee