OK, so I went ahead and said yes to reactivation, now it won't accept the product key from the PC that had the larger hard drive came out of or the product key from the PC I put the hard drive into. Which is it looking for? The larger Hard drive product key or the product key from the PC I am putting the hard drive into?? Jim
-----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kylde Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Activate Windows on hard drive replacement it's a logical progression, Gary V supplied a link once, each and every hardware change adds points to the validation tally, too many points and xp assumes you've installed xp on TWO different machines, (MS logic, must be 2 PC's, their hardware is radically different), so you have to re-validate, which will KILL the validation on PC 1 (which Jim doesnt care about), I hate validation, but it makes sense, Linux would do the same if you actually had to pay for it :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My point being, why the hell should you have to go through the > activation rigmarole just to replace the hard disk. And yes I > appreciate that there was already a copy of XP on the disk that > didn't belong to that machine! -- Regards, Kylde -- ---------------------------------------- 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 Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
