am i allowed to install winxp on both my hard drives. i like to have the
second drive as a standby incase of a disk failure

No. You must purchase a second license for Windows XP if
you wish to install Windows XP on a second drive.

You are only permitted to install one (1) copy of Windows XP
on one (1) computer using the Product Key (license). Additional
installations on different PCs require their own unique Product Key.

Please read your End-User License Agreement by going
to Start > Run and type: WINVER , and hit enter. Then
click on "End-User License Agreement".

If you already have a retail copy of Windows XP, you can obtain
additional licenses for another computer or laptop by visiting the
following Microsoft Web site:
http://shop.microsoft.com/special/wal/walinfo.asp

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"robxx" wrote:

| am i allowed to install winxp on both my hard drives. i like to have the
| second drive as a standby incase of a disk failure

As Carey said the operating system license is good for only one
installation. What you could do is to create a Ghost type image of your
system drive that contains the operating system. That could be burned to
DVDs or stored on another drive. Then if you had a catastrophe you could
restore the image to a new hard drive in a matter of minutes and be up and
running again. Ghost is available from Symantec and is bundled with
SystemWorks which also has their antivirus program. --- Steve

http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoff...006/index.html
--- SystemWorks


"robxx" <robxx@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> am i allowed to install winxp on both my hard drives. i like to have the
> second drive as a standby incase of a disk failure

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"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
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> No. You must purchase a second license for Windows XP if
> you wish to install Windows XP on a second drive.
>
> You are only permitted to install one (1) copy of Windows XP
> on one (1) computer using the Product Key (license). Additional
> installations on different PCs require their own unique Product Key.
>
> Please read your End-User License Agreement by going
> to Start > Run and type: WINVER , and hit enter. Then
> click on "End-User License Agreement".
>
> If you already have a retail copy of Windows XP, you can obtain
> additional licenses for another computer or laptop by visiting the
> following Microsoft Web site:
> http://shop.microsoft.com/special/wal/walinfo.asp
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows - Shell/User
> Microsoft Community Newsgroups
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/
>
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>
> "robxx" wrote:
>
> | am i allowed to install winxp on both my hard drives. i like to have the
> | second drive as a standby incase of a disk failure