They don't give out keys but simply calculate the new number fro the hardware configuration number you provide. Eash 5 digit set represents a certain board, cpu, whatever combo of parts.
formating hard drive 1 time a week
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They don't give out keys but simply calculate the new number fro the hardware configuration number you provide. Eash 5 digit set represents a certain board, cpu, whatever combo of parts.
Matt_91
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I've installed XP on my computer countless times sing the online activation. Starting off with a 350mHz Pentium 2, then a Socket A, then that died and I used a slower Socket A, then a laptop, and finally the computer i have now. And all but the latter I installed the same copy of XP on them several times, apart from the latter which has only had one installation a few days ago. Would it register on the system if the same key was activated over a certain number of times so that they could see if something suspicious was happening?
If you keep formatting your drive, it will slowly loose disk space. I've already reformatted my 120GB drive three times. It's down to 111 GB.
That's normally seen anyways once you convert the decimal unit of measurement seen on the retail box to the binary method used by Windows. A 250gb model will see some 232-234gb depending on partition type. That would be 234gb for Fat32 while roughly 232gb for NTFS.
Both of the 500gb internal sata drives here see 465gb as well as the 500gb external drive once they see a fresh primary created on them.
