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Mark, just last Monday, I installed WinXP Home from the Recovery CD burned from my Dell Inspiron 6000 (6 months old) on my almost-6-year-old Dell Inspiron 4000, and it worked without a glitch. I could do this, because I scratched the I6000 immediately after burning the CD, and installed a dual-booting Kubuntu 6.06 in combination with WinXP Pro. So no license issues. The newer CD even recognised the old hardware, so I guess the Dell CD's are not hardware dependant. Which used to be not the case _at all_ way back when I had a Compaq laptop. They would not even provide an OS CD, just a "recovery CD", which was, as far as I can tell, a kind of image of the HD when leaving the factory. HTH, Peter Colpaert Application Developer PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium ----- Yoda of Borg are we. Futile is resistance, assimilated will you be. ----- "Mark Villa" <iseries.4.me@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 28/06/2006 13:42 Please respond to PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject [PCTECH] Re-using my copies of XP pro I am at a point where the hardware is getting old. I only have a few PC's Would like to get a couple of boxes and re-use my XP pro licenses. Just as an example, mine are Dell proovided but I am not brand crazy. My guess is, I can only buy Dell's to re-install from my existing XP PRO Dell CD over a copy of XP Home (default shipped). And if I am lucky, the license is valid on the newer box. (and I am never lucky) if I have to pay $99 dollars to refresh the XP Pro license stamp, it is not worth the trouble. Anyone doing this sort of thing in a planned fashion? with any brand? I think Dell charges $149 on top of a copy of XP Home. This has been a cash cow for sure. I am a little in the dark on XP Pro licensing and how the un-rich & un-famous save some bucks and stay up to date on the hardware side. In other words, is it better to buy a copy -or- a 5-pack of XP Pro for hardware and just wipe what is shipped? or are new boxes so specific the HAL they are using is only on their CD and hard to find? My view is, $149 dollars is pricey if I am the only dummy paying it, yet not bad if it does not require me to do anything when delivered, since time is money.
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