Re: System Restore
- From: "Christopher Muto" <muto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:08:31 GMT
tom, if they are retail copies (not oem which came with a new computer
purchase) then my understanding is that they can be installed on any machine
as long as it is not on any other. in other words you can freely move a
retail copy of xp from one machine to another; you just can't have it on
multiple machine. the oem license is sold for use only be used with the
computer it came with. but in my opinion what they mean by "the computer"
is completely ambiguous (the case, the processor, the motherboard, the
memory, etc... and when you upgrade any or all of these parts do you have to
move the xp license with the old parts or use it with the new upgraded
parts)... i am not a pirate looking to rip off software developers, i am
just a consumer that doesn't care to be ripped off by them.
op, i think that for about $75 per machine to get xp pro pre-installed would
have been the best way to save money... reloading the os or even cloning it
to another machine will certainly take some time, and time is money. but
given where you are (with legitimate retail xp pro licenses in hand) i think
the simplest thing to do would be to purchase a 2.5" to 3.5" ide adapter
(about $5) or a 2.5" external usb drive cage (about $30) and clone the drive
with the xp pro image to the other new drives via a desktop computer.
actually with two of the 2.5" to 3.5" adapters you can install the source
and destination laptop drives in a desktop and then use a free hard disk
utility like maxtor's maxblast to clone them. alternatively you could also
just install the oem copy of xp pro from scratch on the two new xp home
laptops using the cd from the new xp pro machine. this will not require you
to activate xp, however it is a oem edition and so your retail edition
windows xp product code will not activate them should you ever be challenged
to do so. you could also do this with ghost or partition magic but you have
to buy those (and you didn't say you had them) and spending money on
spending time juggling the operating system around is not exactly saving you
money (or time).
"Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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First, why are the XP Pro licenses becoming "free". If they came with
prior machines, then they CANNOT be legally moved to the new machine.
Regardless, your best bet is a clean install of Pro. No other solution
will work nearly as well.
Tom
"Garry" <Garry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am buying 3 new Inspiron laptops. One is coming with XP Pro already
installed. The other two only have XP Home (to save cost) as I have two
original full copies of XP Pro SP2 which will become free when the old
laptops are replaced.
I want the easiest possible way to install XP Pro on the two XP Home
machines - plus also to have a simple way to do a full restore at some
point
in the future if necessary.
Is it possible to copy the XP Pro restore information from the one
machine
into the restore partition on the other two and then do a system restore
to
create a clean install of XP Pro?
Alternatively can I use something like Drive Copy to mirror the entire
hard
drive (including restore partition) and so copy it across this way.
Any comments would be appreciated.
.
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