XP License Question

[Rick]

I have purchased an external USB Hard Drive Housing to accommodate a spare hard drive on which to save
Ghost Images. When I attached it to the first computer on my 5 system home network the computer asked me for
the XP CD to install a file or driver. I expect this to happen when I attach the USB device to the other
computers for the first time. I have legal Home XP retail copies for each computer. My question is do I need
to use the CD that is licensed to each system or can I use just one CD to install the file or driver on all of
them?

Thanks,

Rick

 

[John Barnett MVP]

As it is simply a driver that XP is after i would assume that you only need
to use one copy of the CD. It's been some time ago, but i installed a driver
from the CD onto my pc and it wasn't the original XP CD for that computer
and, as far as i can remember, it worked okay. You only have two options 1)
try it with a single XP CD or 2) find the CDs for each machine and use the
individual XP CD that matches the relevant PC. The last option would be a
pain anyway.

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[Tritium]

I have purchased an external USB Hard Drive Housing to accommodate a
spare hard drive on which to save Ghost Images. When I attached it to
the first computer on my 5 system home network the computer asked me for
the XP CD to install a file or driver. I expect this to happen when I
attach the USB device to the other computers for the first time. I have
legal Home XP retail copies for each computer. My question is do I need
to use the CD that is licensed to each system or can I use just one CD
to install the file or driver on all of them?

Thanks,

Rick

As already suggested, try using a single CD. If that attempt
fails, then either follow the option of locating the specific
Windows XP cdrom or pointing to the i386 folder that might be
already in the computer for the file.

 

[Borg hater]

No. Its looking for file for hardware operabiity that just happens to be
mutally shared hardware between XP running PCs. This is not an instance of
windows licensing question.
No more appropriate than a mutually shared printer between PCs.
The inclusion of such a setup of each PC of such hardware may increment the
MAC address change algorithm that may start the reactivate process on each
PC. This is normal with hardware changes irregardless.

Any retail XP install CD may be used as a source of a file on any PC you've
mentioned. One for all, all for one. There is no specific site license
information on such CD that would make such a CD specific to any given
machine. The particular product key or activation information of any given
PC is not located on the CD either.

--
Lil' Dave
Beware the rule quoters, the corp mindset, the Borg
Else you will be absorbed

I have purchased an external USB Hard Drive Housing to accommodate a

spare hard drive on which to save

Ghost Images. When I attached it to the first computer on my 5 system home

network the computer asked me for

the XP CD to install a file or driver. I expect this to happen when I

attach the USB device to the other

computers for the first time. I have legal Home XP retail copies for each

computer. My question is do I need

to use the CD that is licensed to each system or can I use just one CD to

install the file or driver on all of