Dual Boot, 2 x XP with same License?

Hawk Tuah · 28 Jan 2008 at 11:55

Is there any restriction on the number of times you can have XP installed on one computer.

For example, having two boot partitions, both XP with the same license.

Burnsy2023 · 28 Jan 2008 at 11:57

One licence covers you for one installation only.

Burnsy

rjk · 28 Jan 2008 at 14:50

why would you want to do this

one lisence = one install

Hawk Tuah · 28 Jan 2008 at 15:40

rjkoneill said:
why would you want to do this

As a recovery tool.

Fr0dders · 28 Jan 2008 at 16:53

in which case

take a ghost of the image. I have a clone of my hard drive (74gb Raptor) on my File HD (250gb)

if ever anything goes **** up i can just restore the disk file for file how it was. Best thing about it, its done using windows own total PC backup built into vista so 100 % legal

but you can achieve the same result using Acronis True Image / Norton Ghost or similar.

oh and for what its worth, the dual boot as a recovery tool would be useless, as none of your changed would be mirrored. You'd might as well just keep a backup of your files and reformat.