Windows XP COA QUERY

Begram | 18:02 Tue 21st Mar 2006 | Technology

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Hi,

I have bought a hard drive off Ebay with Win XP preloaded. It does not come with disks, but with a COA sticker and Serial number. Is this legal? Will microsoft recognise it? If the drive breaks, can I use the COA with a Windows disk? Does microsoft tie the disk to to the COA? Will I need to activate it? Stuck! Help please.

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The COA is associated with OEM licenses. It is legal but you have to have the XP with that hard drive, in other words you cannot ghost the contents of that hard drive to another and use that. Microsoft will recognise it (assuming no-one has used the serial number). Once the hard drive fails you have no more license. You can use the serial with an XP CD (which is only media and has very little valuse) but you have to install it to that hard drive. You will almost certainly have to activate it.

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thanks a lot j2 button. bill says thanks too.

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