Question by numanumanumane: Can i install my XP home recovery CD to other computer?
I have a dead Acer Aspire laptop. It came with an XP Home cd in the form of recovery cd. As i can no longer use my laptop, can i use the XP Home cd on other non-Acer desktop computer? How do i do that? I read that it has something to do with stripping it down with nLite? Any help on this? Thanks.
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Answer by Sandy G
Your copy of XP is licensed to the dead Acer. Installing it on a different system is not in the contract between you and Microsoft – and probably won’t work anyhow.
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Don’t think so. Read this:
Install Problems – What Windows Does –Install on Another Computer – Product Key – 25-character code
“When you buy Windows XP in a shrink-wrapped box, you are allowed to install one copy on one PC. When Windows comes pre-installed on a new PC, it stays with the PC. You cannot transfer it from the bundled machine to a different machine. MS uses a technique called “BIOS locking” to make sure the copy stays ties to that specific PC forever.
Windows installer makes you type the 25-character code that’s printed on the case. The Product Activation program looks at various serial numbers inside your PC – the processor, network card, disk drives, etc. – mixes them together, and produces a second 25 character code that identifies your PC. These 50 characters, together, are called the Installation ID.
When you activate XP, you give MS the 50-character Installaton ID. If nobody else activated that 25-character code or if it has been activated with that specific Installation ID (which means you activated this particular copy of XP from the same PC twice) MS send back a 42-character Confirmation ID. The Installation ID and the Confirmation ID are stored on our PC.
If that 25-character code has been already been used on a different PC you will be notified that the number of times you can activate Windows with this product key has been exceeded.”
Source: paraphrased from p. 18, Windows Gigabook for Dummies, by Peter Weverka et al.