Re-installing XP onto a 2nd Hard Drive

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I have XP installed onto a hard drive which is on a caddy. This installation
is rather old and it takes a long time to bootup. I think that it is
therefore time to do a re-install (I have tried everything to clean it up
but cannot improve the bootup time). The trouble is that a re-installation
is such a pain that I would like to be able to keep running my original
installation while building a new one.

Is it possible and legal to install my copy of XP onto a 2nd hard drive,
fitted into a separate caddy, on the same machine as my 1st installation?
This way I could keep running my original, slow to boot, installation and
then swap caddies to continue the laborious task on re-installing XP onto
the 2nd drive.

Regards, Daz
 
Daz wrote:
> I have XP installed onto a hard drive which is on a caddy. This installation
> is rather old and it takes a long time to bootup. I think that it is
> therefore time to do a re-install (I have tried everything to clean it up
> but cannot improve the bootup time). The trouble is that a re-installation
> is such a pain that I would like to be able to keep running my original
> installation while building a new one.
>
> Is it possible and legal to install my copy of XP onto a 2nd hard drive,
> fitted into a separate caddy, on the same machine as my 1st installation?
> This way I could keep running my original, slow to boot, installation and
> then swap caddies to continue the laborious task on re-installing XP onto
> the 2nd drive.
>
> Regards, Daz
>
>

Yes, you can. Just make sure that you're done before the 30 days are up
for activation on the new XP install.

Alias
 
Ah yes, thanks for that. Presumably, if I activated the new installation
before I was ready, I wouldn't be able to carry on using my old
installation?

Daz

"Alias" <iamalias@NOSPAMPLEASEgmail.com> wrote in message
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> Daz wrote:
>> I have XP installed onto a hard drive which is on a caddy. This
>> installation is rather old and it takes a long time to bootup. I think
>> that it is therefore time to do a re-install (I have tried everything to
>> clean it up but cannot improve the bootup time). The trouble is that a
>> re-installation is such a pain that I would like to be able to keep
>> running my original installation while building a new one.
>>
>> Is it possible and legal to install my copy of XP onto a 2nd hard drive,
>> fitted into a separate caddy, on the same machine as my 1st installation?
>> This way I could keep running my original, slow to boot, installation and
>> then swap caddies to continue the laborious task on re-installing XP onto
>> the 2nd drive.
>>
>> Regards, Daz
>
> Yes, you can. Just make sure that you're done before the 30 days are up
> for activation on the new XP install.
>
> Alias
 
Daz wrote:
> Ah yes, thanks for that. Presumably, if I activated the new installation
> before I was ready, I wouldn't be able to carry on using my old
> installation?
>
> Daz

If it's been over 120 days since the old computer was activated and you
haven't changed any hardware, you can activate the new and keep using
and updating the old one. Now, that's a violation of Microsoft's scammy
EULA and you'll have to decide if you want to do that or not.

Alias
>
> "Alias" <iamalias@NOSPAMPLEASEgmail.com> wrote in message
> news:g2u4j2$n58$2@aioe.org...
>> Daz wrote:
>>> I have XP installed onto a hard drive which is on a caddy. This
>>> installation is rather old and it takes a long time to bootup. I think
>>> that it is therefore time to do a re-install (I have tried everything to
>>> clean it up but cannot improve the bootup time). The trouble is that a
>>> re-installation is such a pain that I would like to be able to keep
>>> running my original installation while building a new one.
>>>
>>> Is it possible and legal to install my copy of XP onto a 2nd hard drive,
>>> fitted into a separate caddy, on the same machine as my 1st installation?
>>> This way I could keep running my original, slow to boot, installation and
>>> then swap caddies to continue the laborious task on re-installing XP onto
>>> the 2nd drive.
>>>
>>> Regards, Daz
>> Yes, you can. Just make sure that you're done before the 30 days are up
>> for activation on the new XP install.
>>
>> Alias
>
>
 
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