It wont work with the same key ID/SN. Microsoft saw that coming and
changed the Key ID structure with each upgrade.
Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <412F7D7B.2010905@theriver.com>, Ray Bayles writes:
>
>>No. When I asked IBM that question on various machines and OS, they have
>>always told me they would only sell me the recovery disk for OS of
>>record on the machine in question. It is a Microsoft issue, not an IBM one.
>
>
> This leads me to a question.
>
> I have a ThinkPad with XP Home and Pro. I bought it from IBM with Home,
> but they sent me the wrong recovery CD, and I bought an XP Pro license.
>
> Today, I picked up XP Pro for another system - and got a disk with SP2 on
> it.
>
> Can I load my ThinkPad from that disk? If I just use the IBM restore
> CD, my ThinkPad will come up with XP (no service packs) and lots of extra
> cruft, most of which I will then have to struggle to uninstall (such as,
> say, IBM's DLA, which annoys me, and which refuses to stop notifying me
> that I could, if I wanted, reenable it). If I use the Windows disk, I
> can presumably "authorize" it or whatever using the product key I got with
> my older copy of XP... Or can I? If I can, then I can download drivers from
> IBM's site, get all the hardware support in, and Be Happy. This would be
> really neat, but I'm not sure whether it'll work.
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