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Darryn Frederick

In order to overcome computer downtime in the event of a
computer failure or theft, we are thinking of purchasing
Nortons Ghost 2002 to create a clone image of our hard
drive. My question is - will we have to reactivate all
our different software that had to be activated initially
eg XP & Office?

Darryn
 
During activation, XP sends a "fingerprint" of your
machines hardware. If you reinstall XP with the same
hardware and it matches then the activation is automatic.

If you want prevent a little activation headache, make a
backup copy of wpa.dbl It contains the hardware
fingerprint info. Then if you need to reinstall xp on a
system that's already been activated, you can restore
this file and bypass the need for activation. It's also
a life saver if xp refuses to run thinking you've changed
something and not activated previously. Xp creates a
backup of the wpa.dbl file called wpa.bak that you can
rename while in safe mode.

Maybe all that will answer your question.
 
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