Windows 7 Reinstall

Chi Town King · 13 Feb 2010

Hi every one, I just need to know if adding another HDD will require re-activation (using another liocense key) upon reinstallation, thanks.

win7clutz · 13 Feb 2010

Welcome to SF, no it will not require re-activation...

Regards;

Chi Town King · 13 Feb 2010

SF? and thanks. I needed to be sure before i bought a new HDD to put XP on. (safety net)

oh seven forums duh

Saltgrass · 13 Feb 2010

If you are going to dual boot XP, you need to ask ahead of time and attach a picture of your Disk Management window. If you have the System Reserve partition, XP has some problems installing after Win 7.

win7clutz · 13 Feb 2010

Saltgrass said:

If you are going to dual boot XP, you need to ask ahead of time and attach a picture of your Disk Management window. If you have the System Reserve partition, XP has some problems installing after Win 7.

Curious... What does this have to do with his post???

Chi Town King · 13 Feb 2010

I know that I tried putting it on the same HDD....bad idea.

Saltgrass · 13 Feb 2010

If you have the System Reserved Partition and are going to use a second hard drive, I would suggest you set that drive to primary so the install will not be interferred with.

After you finish the independent install of XP, you can set the Win 7 back to primary and use EasyBCD 2.0 beta to setup the dual boot.