Ghosting Xp Home

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girovend

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Sounds a bit fishy to me,but
I was going to buy pc from time computers
that came with XP Home installed but no backup disk.

They tried to hit me for another £50 quid for the
backup disk,As I have nortons ghost 2003 I told them I
didn't need it, And was told it was impossible to ghost it
because of the protection
Sounds like Bulls**t to me but anybody got any ideas

It's put me right of buying from time
 
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jroc

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You can Backup XP Home...and restore it..as long as you dont make any major hardware changes..that requires you to re-activate XP...but what might get you...is the fact it sounds like its already activated..and to who....I'd think...if they wanted my Money..they need to produce a New Copy of XP..that you can Activate
 
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albedo039

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I thought there was a really big company, can't remeber the name, that got put of business for doing this stuff. It too was a big name on the hstreet. I thought that this stuff was contre le loi.
Anyway, for sure you can backup with Ghost 2K3. But as the guy above says if you change a stack of hardware you will have to reactivate it. If you don't change anything then it'll work fine.
 
Wedge

Wedge

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Would not purchase from a company without a disc containing XP

You should be getting your personal copy of XP or you should be getting an OEM disc that contains XP. Sure, you can Ghost it, but I wouldn't purchase a machine that had XP installed yet came with no disc containing the OS so that you can do a reformat and reinstallation at some point in the future.
 
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