[quote]Originally posted by techs:
<strong>The idea about cloning a drive with a copy of xp that had already been activated will work, providing the restore is on the same machine(mobo). I tried this, it works.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Thanks for confirming my theory, techs. Now I ask that this thread not be deleted (are you listening Sowulo and Q? ) (maybe just renamed) because this is valuable info to people who need to reinstall Windows on a regular basis on the same machine.