Getting a replacement hard drive will i need a new windows XP cd?

[Posty]

My hard drive died and will be getting a new one next week, i only have windows XP OEM will i need to buy another windows CD or will my current CD work fine?

 

[elfy]

as long as it's not a specialist xp cd, from someawhere like dell, then as long as you've got you product key you should be fine

 

[stoofa]

Microsoft allow for hardware failures in their license - it would be pretty unfair if they didn't.
So even if you can't reactivate online, just call them and explain it is a reinstallation due to a hard drive failure and they will sort you out.

If it's a recovery CD rather than a standard OEM one then it tends to look at the BIOS of the motherboard rather than the HD, so again you should be fine.

 

[RaiderX]

just use phone activation, only questions u need to answer as no are did you change the motherboard and is the copy on more than 1 PC