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

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

Lurching erratically into the sunlight holding 
<g3uaf9$iee$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, it appeared Dr Zoidberg 
<AlexNOOO!!!!!!!!@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> had made a clean getaway:
> "<p>sychotic <c>hicken" <"\"Bill Jillians\""@mysteryisp.com> wrote in 
> message news:ymQcm7AFdaYIFxfS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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?
> >
> > 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 
> > 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.
>
> It might , it might not.
> Even if it does , you just click "activate online" and it does it for you.
> If that fails then it's a three minute phone call to an automated system.

Perhaps more to the point I don't have the Serial Number for the XP disc 
this version was installed from. It was installed from a multiple XP 
master disc by the person I bought it from.  It has never indicated it 
is anything but genuine but if I do have to make that call then I can't 
tell them the serial number of my version and I'm sure that would be 
something they would want to know.  At least they did last time.

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<p>sychotic <c>hicken