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132497 2003-04-01 00:41:00 Will I have problems with reactivation of XP if I decide to reformat. 6 month clean out time..... Breezzee (2913)
132498 2003-04-01 00:51:00 None. If its the same motherboard and mostly the same components it will be fine.

I have done it twice in sucession, when reloading after a disk upgrade, and the process was automatic and quick.
godfather (25)
132499 2003-04-01 00:56:00 That was a quick reply.... thanks. Well I know now what I'll be doing for the next few days :) Breezzee (2913)
132500 2003-04-01 02:39:00 After a while the online activation may fail, but a quick call over the phone to them, give them a quick run-down as you've just done with us and you'll be fine :-)

May have to use the phone though, as the online activation has stopped me before.. too many in quick succesion ;-)
Chilling_Silence (9)
132501 2003-04-01 02:59:00 If you don't want to go through the re-activation hassle you can back up your activation details manually, (too long & complicated to go into here) then replace then after the format.
Or download a free program that will do it for you.
Must still have same hardware etc.
Stumped Badly (348)
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