Draggletail Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Just wondered with all the kerfuffle lately regarding the installing and selling of Windows O/S ....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XvanityX Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Even if you did sell it, there's a 90% chance it wouldn't work on another computer anyway, so no, I don't think there would be a problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savannah2 Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Unless the other PC was identical to yours, it will not work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esme Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 plug and pray might manage to soak up the hardware differences if you are lucky, but assuming it's XP the hardware change will certainly trigger the OS into asking for a license key which will need to be different to the one it already has unless you convince M$ that the original machine has been scrapped and you are transferring the license and if you are cloning the hdd and putting it into other machines without obtaining a license then yes that is definitely naughty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Just format the thing! I'd rather buy an empty HDD than having to format it myself. Unless you sell it with the license then I don't think it's legal, not that I know the legalities of selling on software anyways as I'm not reading those silly T&Cs at the start of the install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggletail Posted September 25, 2006 Author Share Posted September 25, 2006 Thanks for your replies folks. HeHe - I thought if you plugged it into another PC It'd work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torin8 Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Of course all the other information you left on there would be accessible to anyone who stuck it in as a second drive.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggletail Posted September 25, 2006 Author Share Posted September 25, 2006 Of course all the other information you left on there would be accessible to anyone who stuck it in as a second drive.... That's alright, Its not my computer It's one I picked up on a job They wanted it recycling and said they had cleared off anything of importance. (allthough I suppose the info could still be retreived, but it was their choice) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esme Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 so technically you have a scrapped machine and a licence for it's operating system you can reinstall the operating system on that machine and use it or M$ may let you transfer it to another (presumably better) machine providing you genuinely scrap the original machine ... I think there may be restrictions on OEM licence transfers but as M$ let you buy OEM licenses for any machine as long as you buy some hardware I can't see them being too bothered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggletail Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 ... I think there may be restrictions on OEM licence transfers but as M$ let you buy OEM licenses for any machine as long as you buy some hardware I can't see them being too bothered What's OEM stand for esme? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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