From: jsowden@americansentry.net   
      
   I have several hard drives that I have removed from boxes that were   
   running various versions of windows, mainly xp due to their age.  One   
   night, in the middle of the night I had a power supply die, and the fast   
   solution was to swap the HD with another box and get it up and running.   
     Unfortunately, it refused to boot, with a message to call some guy in   
   India.  I had to explain why I was swapping the HD to another computer   
   that had windows on its HD.  After making my best effort to explain that   
   I am not trying to cheat microsoft, after all they have already been   
   paid for the license, they gave me a long number to key in to allow my   
   computer to run my license of windows. (This is a perfect example of why   
   I have moved to Ubuntu, except for a few boxes, due to manufacturers who   
   only write their code for windows.   
      
   My issue: I have a few hard drives that I did not ID which box they came   
   out of.  When/If I install a hard drive in the "wrong" box, will windows   
   mark the O/S to not allow me to boot it up on any box, even the   
   "correct" one?   
      
   John   
      
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