Re: [Thinkpad] Anyone got a source for Win 2K recovery disks forT23?

The IBM recovery CD's for XP do not require or allow activation, and I have
transferred hard drives between machines and it does not de-activate.
I have no idea how Vista will handle this, but if OEM copys require
activation that is one heck of a negative selling point! It would mean you
could not restore a machine from a master copy, great for Micro$oft, but
impossible for all of us who do tech support and resale (and in that way
basically keep microsoft in business.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony R. Gold" <thinkpadlist2@ahjg.co.uk>
To: "Thinkpad Mailing List" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Anyone got a source for Win 2K recovery disks
forT23?

> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:37:15 -0500, Jon Kelly wrote:
>
> > On 2/22/07, Anthony R. Gold <thinkpadlist2@ahjg.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> That is wrong and highly misleading. The IBM OEM version of WinXP
never
> >> need either activation or reactivation.
> >
> > Tony -- isn't that statement only hold true if you are installing it
onto
> > IBM hardware? (e.g. not in a VM running on any hardware - IBM or other,
or
> > directly onto non-IBM hardware.)
> > I believe that is the case for other OEM versions.
>
> It's my belief that IBM's OEM WinXP software will either install without
> activation or not allow itself to be installed at all. I don't know of
> any intermediate state which requires or even allows activation, but I'm
> happy to hear of other experiences. I never tried to install this
> software either on non-IBM hardware or in a VM under another OS.
>
> Tony
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