Because windows gets activated for a particular hardware set including: CPU MAC and HARD Drive you have taken a copy of windows that was activated as being installed on one system and moved it to another system so the software is assuming that you may have copied the install to another machine, and what you can do once you could do 1000 times
Basically, just let it activate itself (tell the MS recording system that its been moved) - unless you intend putting that disk back into the original system Note - copying it to a second system is probably expressly excluded according to the licence agreement for use of that instance of the OS. Note COPYING and PROBABLY JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Poer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 8:38 PM Subject: Activate Windows on hard drive replacement > I have a Compaq1 with a working HD loaded with XPHome. I took another HD > from another PC(Compaq2) with its own working copy of XP and put it in the > Compaq1. Now the Compaq1 is telling me "This copy of WIndows must be > activated with Microsoft before you can log on. Do you want to activate > Windows now?" Why is it asking me that when it was used for 2 years already? > I have not clicked on yes or no. I just wanted to put a larger HD in the > Compaq1 because the MB on the Compaq2(where I got the Seagate HD) had gone > out. Did I use the wrong procedure? > Thankx > Jim > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
