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On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:02:45 +0100, <p>sychotic <c>hicken wrote:
> I have a question about the XP operating system and adding new hardware
> to my system. Is this the right newsgroup for this question and if not
> can somebody point me to a more appropriate one? Perhaps something in
> the overblown Microsoft hierarchy?
If you can wade through the insults, flame wars, etc. you might find some
useful answers there.
> Specifically ... if I want to add more space to my computer in the form
> of adding a new hard disk which I would have to do by taking out a zip
> drive or a DVD drive, would XP pick up that a major change had been made
> and require me to activate again. I don't have the XP installation disk
> for this computer so I'm not going to upgrade until I can be sure it
> won't then make this computer unusable.
I very much doubt it, I have changed and added disks before without
re-activation. The only time I had to re-activate was for a video card and
I didn't even change it, just uninstalled and reinstalled the driver a few
times. I think MS realise that disks are one thing that get replaced and
upgraded a lot, since they instigate most of the upgrades with their
bloatware :-)
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trevor@leoben:~$ telnet mordor
telnet: could not resolve mordor/telnet: One does not simply telnet into mordor!
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