Re: System Restore
- From: "Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:41:02 GMT
Agreed, IF they are retail. Still waiting to hear from the OP.
"Christopher Muto" <muto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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