Any suggestions and warnings would be appreciated.
Reinstall winxp pro on new disk use diff drive let
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stuteville
, Feb 06 2005 02:56 AM
#1
Posted 06 February 2005 - 02:56 AM
Any suggestions and warnings would be appreciated.
#2
Posted 06 February 2005 - 03:31 AM
The upgarde of Windows XP Pro, does that have Service Pack 2?? I would recommend that you do a complete install of Windows XP. Once you have posted back, if the upgarde has Service Pack 2 on it I can help you more. If it doesnt then I will help you slipstream Serivce Pack 2 to the upgrade disk. You will not have any problems reinstalling, and reactivation. I myself have reinstalled Windows XP Pro as much as 3 times in a week, due to testing, play with the reg, and have never had anyone show up at my door. Hope that this helps.
#3
Posted 06 February 2005 - 01:02 PM
It doesn't have service pak 2 and we never upgraded to service pak 2 on our current install. It has been activated several weeks ago, so my fear is that it will detect major changes to the installation since the info is stored on the boot sector of disk we have it on and we will delete it and reinstall on a different disk. Not sure if we then get the 30 days to reactivate or what. Also I am not sure if I want to install Service Pak 2 I have heard so many mixed comments about it.
#4
Posted 06 February 2005 - 04:08 PM
There is no reason not to upgrade to Service Pack 2. By not upgrading you are running a high risk of flaws that have been pactched for Service Pack 2. Now if you want to preform a fresh install make sure that you back up all the information from the hard drives to a CD-R/RW, or onto a network computer. When ever you do a install of Windows XP on a different partition, or on another harddrive you will always be promted to activate Windows. Do you have Dial-up or Broadband?? If you have broadband, then download Service Pack 2:
http://www.microsoft...&displaylang=en
If you have dial-up, then use this link to order a CD that has Service Pack 2:
http://www.microsoft...us/default.mspx
Hope that this helps.
http://www.microsoft...&displaylang=en
If you have dial-up, then use this link to order a CD that has Service Pack 2:
http://www.microsoft...us/default.mspx
Hope that this helps.
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