One XP on two hard drives

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Wolfe

I want to upgrade to XP, however I am currently running 98
on two bootable hard drives (one for kids, one for
parents). The drive to be booted from is choosen via a
boot menu offered by BIOS. Can I use one copy of XP in
this case? If so how do I go about activating XP on both
HD's and mantain upgrades.

Wolfe
 
It actually shouldn't matter. When it comes to
activating all major hardware will appear the same. you
should have no issues with activating or upgrading,
besides you can only run one at a time anyway
 
I do it on my pc, I have removable trays, one 120gb and one 20gb both with
XP and installed as Master and Slave. All I do is yank out the 120 and boot
from the slave, works like a champ.
 
From what I have read I get the impression that depending
on which hard drive is primary I would get a different
installation ID number and therefore requiring
activation. Have you done what I describe or are you
thinking that it should work?

Thanks.
Wolfe
 
You should evaluate the use of user profiles in xp - its so much better now
and you can have security to keep the kids seperate from yours..... Im
using it in some offices finally - we've tried with everything since win 98
and only now do the profiles do a really decent job of keeping everything
seperate (including emails and stuff).
 
Requiring activation and be able to activate are really two different
issues. You will be required to activate separately but the hardware hash
for both should remain constant, hence you should be able to activate on
both hard drives without issue on the same computer without issue.
 
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