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Sun, 9 May 2004 22:10:44 -0400
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If you just clone your existing drive to a new drive it seems to me that you wouldn't even have to register it with MS. If you do a new install you'll have to register it for activation, and although I don't think it is a violation of any licensing agreement, one never knows what MS will do.

>I have always had more than one hard drive for my W98 computers. They can
>be switched with removable trays. That allows me to have one secure drive
>for important stuff, and another for online stuff, email, games, etc. I
>would like to do that with my newer XP computer. So I want to make a new
>drive using my one copy of XPPro and use it on the same computer as my
>original XP drive. I want to stay within the MS license rules.
>Is it possible?
>Is it practical?
>Is it consistent with the MS license?
>Thanks, Bob Lendrim
>
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