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Steve
December 9th 03, 10:05 AM
I'm contemplating removing both hard drives from my
system and installing new larger ones to make a digital
jukebox. I'll have to reinstall xp from my cd. This
will require reactivation of xp, but xp will believe it's
on a new computer. What should I do?

Nicholas
December 9th 03, 10:05 AM
Steve --

Take a few moments to review the following article:

Windows Product Activation (WPA)
on Windows XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm

[Courtesy of Alex Nichol, MS-MVP]


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Nicholas

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