For fathers day I bought my father the full version of XP Pro. He was having alot of problems with his ripped copy. OK so now he has the full version that is legit. The computer he has and I have were bought through the company we run and I was wonder if I could install the same copy of XP Pro onto my system even though he has it on his system and run it legally w/o any problems? The systems are at 2 different locations and 2 different internet providers. The reason I'm trying to do this is because I have to reformat my computer due to Nortan Antivirus messing things up, and figured I might as well upgrade since I'm going to be doing this anyway.

btw I have XP Home I bought a long time ago on my system and it works great but I always like upgrading.

Thanks!

-Ryan

 

Unless you bought licenses to run XP Pro on both computers (which it sounds like you didn't), then no, it won't be legal... nor will it work out. It might install, but you wouldn't be able to update it.

 

Only way it will work is if you have exactly the same hardware inside both.
Otherwise you need to buy a second copy of XP pro for your computer.
MS made it a pain on this go around to install on any more than 1 comp.

 

Wont work. there are a few hacks or cracks on the net But they are troublesome and bug filled.

Just buy a legit copy or use windows 2000

 

Sounds like the same thing you get when you purchase the legit copy. :drum:

 

Thanks guys...thats kinda what i figured....I'll just reinstall my copy of XP home....Thanks!

 

nope... that wont even work.

win nt/2000/xp generates a SID for EACH INDIVIDUAL machine based on a few hardware parts on your machine, like the intel CPU id, iirc, the network card MAC address, which is UNIQUE and a few more others things.

if you run a computer lab you know what kind of a hassle it is to GHOST one machine and blast that image to the rest of the machines and then having to deal with generating new SIDs... even if each machine is identical to each other in respect to the physical hardware setup...

in other words, you cant...

 

Hey cool answer, however, you can run a script on WINXP after using Ghost to have each machine generate a new SID upon log in by a user. We do a 100 machines at a time and found it the easiest way to change the SID from the ghost image. Ghost takes 4 minutes to load an image, to do complete one at a time install takes WAY to long. We use Ghost over the network during slow use hours and when folks come in, they have a new PC and full install. Works nice.
The SID in WINXP also uses the LOG-IN information of each user to identify users as well as machines.


MV