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re: Dual Boot and Activation
Tuesday, November 6, 2001 at 10:56 am
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Posted by Neil Katz (6 messages posted)


Backing up is no problem as I have a second hard drive that I use for that purpose. My real question conerns activation. If I activate before I do this, will I have to activate again after?


On Tuesday, November 6, 2001 at 10:48 am, William wrote:
>If your your data is backed up so you won't lose everything when you reformat it
>would be best to reformat everything and lay XP down nice and clean.
>I use 98 for games and *nix for everything else, Always its good whenever possible
>to start fresh you wont have to worry about compatability or conflicts. If you cant
>backup your data then you could try a straight upgrade from me to xp although something
>always doesnt match up right especially if your converting fat32 to NTFS, Depending
>on your hardware. I would recommend a total reformat and clean install of XP.


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re: Dual Boot and Activation (William: Tuesday, November 6, 2001 at 10:48 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Dual Boot and Activation (Neil Katz: Tue, Nov 6, 2001, 8:29 am)
-re: Dual Boot and Activation (William: Tue, Nov 6, 2001, 10:48 am)
*re: Dual Boot and Activation (Neil Katz: Tue, Nov 6, 2001, 10:56 am)
*re: Dual Boot and Activation (LINUS: Tue, Nov 6, 2001, 11:42 am)
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