I was wondering that as well. Being in the position I am, ie blind, I've
never had to reformat either in 98 or XP unless it has been a hardware fault
that has trashed the drive.

Brian

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"Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
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> Xu wrote:
>> I have now had three products that I bought--including XP--give me an
>> activation waring. XP is no trouble, but the other two companies cut
>> me off and said I had to buy a new version of their software.
>>
>> I am wondering, once I get everything set up the way I like it, can't
>> I just clone my HDD thereby avoiding activation in the future when I
>> reformat?
>
> If you restore to the same exact hardware then you should avoid
> activation. The bigger question is why do you have to reformat so often?
>
> Kerry
>
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