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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Ok, this question is pretty tricky. I have a legitimate XP license when I bought it bundled with Virtual PC about a year ago, because my parents told me to get it, not realizing how much VPC sucked. Anyways, I didn't realize that bundled meant "on the same CDs". So I hope to get a Mactel this summer, and I want some advice as to how to use that XP license on the Mactel. According to MS (which I doubt), it's legit to move it from VPC to the Mactel. But I can't install to Boot Camp off those CDs (there's no individual XP installer, and there's no SP2).
What are my options insofar as getting a Boot Camp situation set up? Thanks for your time. |
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So those CDs come with a preinstalled Windows? Or do they include the installer, but you can't run it on your own; it runs automatically?
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Could you not borrow a Home Edition SP2 disc from a friend, use that to install BootCamp and then use the valid VPC licence you got?
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Leiden, the Netherlands
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When in doubt, you could ask Microsoft if this is legitimate.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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According to MS, it's legal to use that XP Pro key. For all intents and purposes, it's a retail key. The CDs seem to auto-install a customized VM version of XP. And it lacks either SP.
So my only real option is to find a friend with a retail XP Pro SP2 CD? |
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Portlandia
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If your license was a copy, that would be another thing entirely. "What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with, and it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds." - Steve Jobs |
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Just so I'm hearing you right- You're saying that if I have a license but my CD is borked, I can just go up and ask my friend to borrow his CD and install it, and I'm still in clear?
What an interesting concept... |
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Tulsa, OK
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25 chars of wasted space.
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Why not just download it? You could have it downloaded in like 2 hours.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Milwaukee
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Bit-Torrent an ISO. As long as you have a license and the package you're downloading doesn't have a serial it won't be illegal. Do that, use the license included with your cd. |
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"What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with, and it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds." - Steve Jobs |
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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copy, I already know that.
Using a different media with your original license, I didn't know that. It came to me as sort of a shock because I was under impression that media=license and licenses live/die with the provided media. I have two CAD programs that is forever attached to this Dell, meaning if I should upgrade my computer, I would have buy a new license to transfer to my computer. That's extreme and not typical of your usual software; but I do recall that you cannot use OEM media to repair a legitimate version Windows, hence my thinking. |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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The funny thing is that I checked Bit Torrent just for the heck of it, and I had a hard time finding an uncracked version, or a non-corporate version. I'm going to borrow a friend's CD I think, since between all my friends, there are several BYO computer people, and one of them will have a retail copy of Pro.
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I shot the sherrif.
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Plus then you know what's on the CD. Never know what's been added to a torrented uploaded version of XP. Although the cracked versions are significantly more suspect.
Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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