On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Lester Caine <lester@...> wrote:

> I'll copy this around a few places, but hopefully it will save people
> some time. It's just cost me the best part of two days!
>
> Windows XP license strings are linked to the original disk, and in the
> early days you could not even install when using a newer disk with an
> old code. I've got a few sites now where the machines are getting a bit
> tired and at the end of last week one went tits up, so time for a new
> box rather than simply replacing the hardware internally. Since the site
> has two machines I just got a couple of new boxes together and simply
> installed for the original disk set - or so I thought!
>
> One works fine, and dumping the data from the old disk - everything is
> fine and it even accesses the internet via the main machine ...
> The main machine was OK until I started to run the latest updates, and
> then it got into the state where it refuses to 'update' because it can't
> authenticate itself ( I'm sure some people will have seen it - windows
> advantage tool tells you to buy a legal copy! )
>
> Last night I wiped the machine and started again ... but with the XPsp1
> disk rater than an sp2 disk that had been put in the file obviously by
> mistake. Everything ran smoothly and a surprising 4 hours later ( it
> normally takes longer from sp1 ) I have a fully functional machine again!
>
> So make sure you keep the right disk with your older windows license keys!

I think you should start a blog :)
and install xp only in a virtual machine container like virtualbox/kvm

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