Dual Boot no more

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Currently, my system is being dual booted with XP and Vista Ultimate. The
original installation was with XP and I used my second hard drive to install
Vista. I didn't have any issues regarding dual boot. My question is: What
happens now if I want to have Vista as my "only" O/S and use my XP O/S on
another computer? Will have any activation issues? Right now, both O/S's
have the same configurations when they were activated. I'm a bit confused
with this.

Thanks
 
Pike said:
Currently, my system is being dual booted with XP and Vista Ultimate. The
original installation was with XP and I used my second hard drive to
install
Vista. I didn't have any issues regarding dual boot. My question is:
What
happens now if I want to have Vista as my "only" O/S
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Depends on how you installed and where your boot files are

and use my XP O/S on
another computer? Will have any activation issues?
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Probably, and you may have driver issues if the other computer is different
with differnent hardware. There also may be license issues.

Right now, both O/S's
 
Pike said:
Currently, my system is being dual booted with XP and Vista Ultimate.
The original installation was with XP and I used my second hard drive
to install Vista. I didn't have any issues regarding dual boot. My
question is: What happens now if I want to have Vista as my "only"
O/S and use my XP O/S on another computer? Will have any activation
issues? Right now, both O/S's have the same configurations when they
were activated. I'm a bit confused with this.

Thanks
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If your original copy of XP was OEM...
you cannot install it on a new computer.
If it was a retail version you will probably
have to activate over the phone.


(307890) How to activate Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307890/en-us

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Pike said:
Currently, my system is being dual booted with XP and Vista Ultimate. The
original installation was with XP and I used my second hard drive to
install
Vista. I didn't have any issues regarding dual boot. My question is:
What
happens now if I want to have Vista as my "only" O/S and use my XP O/S on
another computer? Will have any activation issues? Right now, both O/S's
have the same configurations when they were activated. I'm a bit confused
with this.

Thanks
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You need to provide more info. Is the version of XP OEM or retail? How
was the dual boot set up?
 
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