reinstall only allowed x amount of times?
osaddict
London, UK
Hey All,
When someone leaves and their pc goes over to someone else- I prefer to reformat it and start over- nicer for both people I think.
However, I seem to recall reading somewhere that when you reinstall xp home that you can only do this 3 times or something before it fails to work and you have to contact microsoft for confirmation or something?!
I am using oem dell cd's (these are dell machines) should this be a problem? (The majority of pc's have been reinstalled at least once or twice already- if doing it a third or fourth time means problems I might just clean it as best as poss and not do a full reinstall?
(This was information from what I consider to be a slightly iffy source- far from an expert or informed user- but still made me want to verify it one way or another!)
When someone leaves and their pc goes over to someone else- I prefer to reformat it and start over- nicer for both people I think.
However, I seem to recall reading somewhere that when you reinstall xp home that you can only do this 3 times or something before it fails to work and you have to contact microsoft for confirmation or something?!
I am using oem dell cd's (these are dell machines) should this be a problem? (The majority of pc's have been reinstalled at least once or twice already- if doing it a third or fourth time means problems I might just clean it as best as poss and not do a full reinstall?
(This was information from what I consider to be a slightly iffy source- far from an expert or informed user- but still made me want to verify it one way or another!)
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It's been a while, though.
It's a 10 minute ordeal at best. I hate it.
Would just the usual stuff like memory upgrade, change dvd burner etc be enough to trigger the problem- or is it only serious stuff like changing the mobo or something!
I don't consider that a major harware change and it hasn't done it when I've added HD's before, so I can only assume that OS had been loaded a number of times on that PC already or the hardware had been changed often.
Prime's right about the phoning in being a huge pain. The way they grill you you'd swear you were up for murder.