Re: Ghosting a WinXP boot drive (was: AMD vs. Intel)

["Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Or you could just buy a subscription to MSDN and get multiple software keys
to nearly every Microsoft product, including multiple versions of WinXP.
It's relatively inexpensive (put into perspective...) and you have access to
all new products and betas and license keys.  When you join, you will
receive an unbelievable amount of software in the mail, included in your
subscription price, which can literally save you thousands of dollars if you
were to go out and purchase it all individually.  It's a really good deal
for a business and also a developer subscription is well worth it for an
individual too. 

For what you're trying to do Don, maybe not since you're working from free
hardware to start with, but still, you might consider it.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/



-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Douglas Handy
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 4:24 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Ghosting a WinXP boot drive (was: AMD vs. Intel)

Dan,

I seem to recall (not saying much there) that there were "corporate"
> versions of XP Pro that did not require a product key.  Or was it that the
> same product key could be used for multiple (thousands of) installs?


The latter.  The corporate license keys do not require activation, and may
be used on multiple machines. That is also why they are the "valuable" for
people running pirated versions of XP.  Rumor has it that installation of
SP2 disables numerous "well known" corporate keys.

Doug