XP Dual Boot difficulties

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I have 2 hard drives, C and F. XP was originally installed on C, but due to the clutter that had developed, I wanted to do a clean install of XP. I was told that if I re-installed XP from the disk, it would do the trick. Instead, it installed XP on drive F and I have a dual boot of 2 XP's. What I want to do is wipe out both hard drives and do a clean install on Drive C. However, I also heard that you can only activate XP twice on the same machine. Is that true? How would I safely go about doing the clean install?
 
Matt Duerst said:
I have 2 hard drives, C and F. XP was originally installed on C, but due
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to the clutter that had developed, I wanted to do a clean install of XP. I
was told that if I re-installed XP from the disk, it would do the trick.
Instead, it installed XP on drive F and I have a dual boot of 2 XP's. What I
want to do is wipe out both hard drives and do a clean install on Drive C.
However, I also heard that you can only activate XP twice on the same
machine. Is that true? How would I safely go about doing the clean install?

You can install XP on the same machine as often as you want. Sometimes the
on-line activation fails and you have to call in (using the phone option).
Just explain the situation, and you'll be fine.
Chris
 
Technically you are right, you can. It makes perfect sense to do this
for a variety of reasons and some technical solutions even dictate this,
but the legal idiots actual forbid this in the EULA.
I was advocating the use of this, when someone else commented on it,
looked it up and shook my head.
 
Billy said:
Technically you are right, you can. It makes perfect sense to do this
for a variety of reasons and some technical solutions even dictate this,
but the legal idiots actual forbid this in the EULA.
I was advocating the use of this, when someone else commented on it,
looked it up and shook my head.
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As long as you are not installing multiple copies (which is what the OP was
trying to fix) I know of no reason why you cannot install/reinstall any
number of times on the same hardware.
Perhaps I should have been clearer in what I was saying, as the part I think
you misunderstood was in reply to an alledged limit of a maximum of two
activations per XP license.
Chris
 
Chris said:
As long as you are not installing multiple copies (which is what the OP was
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Seems starnge that you can't, legally, install multiple copies on the
same machine. After all, you could only use one at a time (unlike
installing on multiple machines) and I could see it being useful, e.g.
use one instance as a testbed for Service Packs, patches etc. (some of
which can't be uninstalled) before committing them to your main instance.
 
Parish said:
was

Seems starnge that you can't, legally, install multiple copies on the
same machine. After all, you could only use one at a time (unlike
installing on multiple machines) and I could see it being useful, e.g.
use one instance as a testbed for Service Packs, patches etc. (some of
which can't be uninstalled) before committing them to your main instance.
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SNIP

I never thought it strange (it is MS after all), just inconvenient.
Chris
 
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