Re: Upgrading XP computer. Will it need re-activation?

["<p>sychotic <c>hicken" <"\"Bill Jillians\""@mysteryisp.com>]

Lurching erratically into the sunlight holding 
<pan.2008.06.25.07.28.47.334672@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, it appeared Trevor Best 
<newsreply@xxxxxxxxxxxx> had made a clean getaway:
> 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.

Yes ... I know what you mean.  I've experienced some of that.

> > 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 :-)

Thanks a lot Trevor.  I had XP on a different computer demand 
re-activation for no apparent reason a few weeks back.  I hadn't 
installed anything new for weeks but it still went ahead.  I figure if I 
take out the Zip drive and add a slave drive for storing music and 
pictures then hopefully that will have the least impact.

Cheers.
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<p>sychotic <c>hicken