Windows xp home edition upgrade

Yes you can use the Win XP home upgrade on the new system,but you will probaly have to call Microsoft tech support and provide them with the reason you are loading the OS on another system,so they can provide you with the activation key to install on your new system

Hi,

Soulrider is correct, but I believe that if its been 90 days or more since you activated your other installation of XP, then you wont have any problems re-activating again with the "new" PC.

Cheers,
Tim.

You may not even have to call. You were supposed to be allowed a certain number of major hardware changes before having to get a new code. I hafven't heard of anyone being locked out yet. The most important thing to remeber is that two computers are not supposed to be able to use the software simultaneously.

I went through an almost identical problem.
The automatic activation wizzard will reject the new installation because the maximum number of installations for the product code number have been activated.
It will then give you a long string of numbers, and the phone number to call.
Keep the screen up, and call the listed Microsoft number.
They will then help you manually activate your instalation.
They may or may not ask why.

Note: this will also happen if you wipe an activated XP installation and start over again.

There are hints posted on several of the XP sites for how to back-up product activation.
I backed up all of the files that were modified or created when I activated.

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