Help with reinstalling Win XP on a new hardrive

[Mike]

Hi, I am replacing my hard drive and will be doing a clean
reinstall of Win XP Home Edition on it. Will I need to
contact Microsoft to reactivate windows xp, or will it
reactivate ok during the install process? Won't it appear
to Microsoft that I installed XP on 2 different computers,
since they already have an installation id for my copy of
XP? Thanks in advance for your help.

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Do the following and you may or may not need to re-activate
see links will help you

How to Fdisk from Win XP(Win XP Clean Install Interactive Setup)
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp

Installing new mother brd, does XP need to ne re-activiated.
You should not have to reformat the hard drive to replace a defective or
newer mother brd
http://www.petri.co.il/move_xp_to_a_different_hardware.htm

Activiation Process form MS
http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/basics/activation/


Alvin


Mike wrote:

> Hi, I am replacing my hard drive and will be doing a clean
> reinstall of Win XP Home Edition on it. Will I need to
> contact Microsoft to reactivate windows xp, or will it
> reactivate ok during the install process? Won't it appear
> to Microsoft that I installed XP on 2 different computers,
> since they already have an installation id for my copy of
> XP? Thanks in advance for your help.