Anlavabeed
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Hi,
For a family member I'm building a new pc. Because he himself has a licence for the Full version of XP Home I obviously would like to use it on the new pc and remove it from the old pc. However he has lost his original cd. To test the new pc I temporary installed an old harddisk in the new pc. Because I have no xp cd from the full version I thought, what the heck, I'll try my Upgrade cd of XP Home and use his key and it worked! It didn't even ask for a cd from a previous version of Windows to check if you are entitled to use the upgrade version! But this should not be possible right?
My question is: will this combination work without problems: there will be no problems with Windows update and activation? (It is kinda hard to get an new retail cd without spending a lot of $).
Thanks!
Cheers,
Mark
For a family member I'm building a new pc. Because he himself has a licence for the Full version of XP Home I obviously would like to use it on the new pc and remove it from the old pc. However he has lost his original cd. To test the new pc I temporary installed an old harddisk in the new pc. Because I have no xp cd from the full version I thought, what the heck, I'll try my Upgrade cd of XP Home and use his key and it worked! It didn't even ask for a cd from a previous version of Windows to check if you are entitled to use the upgrade version! But this should not be possible right?
My question is: will this combination work without problems: there will be no problems with Windows update and activation? (It is kinda hard to get an new retail cd without spending a lot of $).
Thanks!
Cheers,
Mark