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Hi

What happens if you don`t activate windows. I have just installed a new hard drive, and reinstalled windows xp it wants to activate, but says my key code has exceeded the amount of times it can be used. I activated succesfully the first time on my old drive.

andysun73

Thus proving why you should clone, not reinstall.

If you have a keycode\license label annoying as it may be, just ring & activate.




I consider myself an optimist, albeit an optimist with cynical tendencies and a dark side that Lucifer himself would find a little creepy. (Perhaps you've noticed.) You don't normally associate cynicism with an upbeat pov. But I have exactly that combination and will defend it.

I hate answering the phone at work - It disturbs my sleep.

I have activated 3 times in 3 months. The system asks if you have made any signifcant hardware changes and then gives you a code.

Be careful and listen to the questions and answers. It will ask you how many machines you have installed on. Press 1 for more than one machine, Press 2 for one machine. Nearly caught me out with that.

This item was edited on Friday, 13th April 2007, 08:10

I keep rebuilding my machine (for the hell of it :D) and always get asked to call M$
The automated version never works for me and I always get through to a helpful call centre (that isn`t sarcasm, they really are helpful).

However, I got so so fed up with doing it, I tried the method of backing up the wpa files and restoring those after the install....didn`t work!

So I`ve now just gone down the root that Rass has said...taken an image of the build that works (with all drivers etc. installed) and just restore it each time :D
Only 3.5Gb in size with pretty much everything I need installed and registered.

Hi MilesR

Which piece of software are you using to backup your system?

Think I need to start doing this!

Cheers
A_Lad_Called_Nobby

I`m using a bit of software from a version of "Hiren`s Boot CD" - the most useful boot CD I`ve ever come across.

homepage.ntlworld.com/hiren.thanki/bootcd.html

PM me for details of how to get hold of it.