External HD and activation?

I have an external HD that I do not always turn on. I basically use it
for backup purposes. How will "activation" handle this?? Should I turn
it on or off during activation? H*ll, I don't want to reactivate every
time I turn it on or off!
-Pete

Having the same piece of hardware present and not present at various times
should not have any effect on activation.

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"Pete" <> wrote in message
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>I have an external HD that I do not always turn on. I basically use it for
>backup purposes. How will "activation" handle this?? Should I turn it on or
>off during activation? H*ll, I don't want to reactivate every time I turn
>it on or off!
> -Pete

Dave B. wrote:
> Having the same piece of hardware present and not present at various times
> should not have any effect on activation.
>

I am not so sure of that. This is a hard disk, and changes in hard disk
configuration can impact the activation "formula." God I hate M$.

Pete wrote:
>
>
> Dave B. wrote:
>> Having the same piece of hardware present and not present at various
>> times should not have any effect on activation.
>>
>
> I am not so sure of that. This is a hard disk, and changes in hard disk
> configuration can impact the activation "formula." God I hate M$.

Hi Pete. You should be just fine. I have a second internal HDD that was
physically disconnected when I installed Vista as the system was
determined to install onto it instead of the main HDD. After activation
and setting things up the way I wanted I then reconnected the second HDD
for backup purposes, and Vista never complained. So I would imagine you
will have no trouble at all. Hope this helps.

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Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.)
Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and
compulsive computer fiddler.

Hi, Pete.

I've swapped hard drives in and out many times. The only time I've had to
reactivate was when I had to actually reinstall Vista (or WinXP) for some
reason, such as for a new motherboard or creating a new System Partition on
a different HD.

I'm talking about internal hard drives. You should have no problem with
external drives that are not used to boot the system.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)

"Pete" <> wrote in message
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>
>
> Dave B. wrote:
>> Having the same piece of hardware present and not present at various
>> times should not have any effect on activation.
>>
>
> I am not so sure of that. This is a hard disk, and changes in hard disk
> configuration can impact the activation "formula." God I hate M$.

R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, Pete.
>
> I've swapped hard drives in and out many times. The only time I've had
> to reactivate was when I had to actually reinstall Vista (or WinXP) for
> some reason, such as for a new motherboard or creating a new System
> Partition on a different HD.
>
> I'm talking about internal hard drives. You should have no problem with
> external drives that are not used to boot the system.
>
> RC
Thanks everyone.
I suppose I'll turn it off during the installation, and on afterward?

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:19:39 -0400, Pete <> wrote:

>I have an external HD that I do not always turn on. I basically use it
>for backup purposes. How will "activation" handle this?? Should I turn
>it on or off during activation? H*ll, I don't want to reactivate every
>time I turn it on or off!
>-Pete

I have many customers who use external USB hard drives to back up Vista
without a problem. However, I also have three or four other customers
who were forced to reactivate after removing their externals and
plugging them into different USB ports - at least that's the only thing
I could think of that could cause the reactivation request...... Or
maybe it was just Billy Gates lookin' for his two dollars?

I hate M$ too. Vista is the worst computer virus ever to infect our
machines.

Good Luck,
HLK