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Apple Computing Products:
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Windows HD in a Mac?
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<blockquote data-quote="thomas998" data-source="post: 1015343" data-attributes="member: 111388"><p>Just so you know it isn't just a Mac problem... If you took that hard drive out and dropped it into another random Windows machine it would likely not work perfectly if at all because there are hundreds of different graphics cards, network adapter, DVD units and each one has its own driver which your windows was setup with for the machine it is on... </p><p></p><p>And even if you had a computer at home that was configured exactly as the one at work the pop up with a Windows authorization issue would become a problem because windows checks serial numbers on hard drives, CPUs and verifies that the graphics cards are the same. </p><p></p><p>Whenever it sees a different hard drive or graphic card or processor it trips a little flag and once certain number of flags are tripped it has to be reauthorized... Even if you bought an identical computer to the one you have at work this problem would pop up and get you. It is microsofts method of keeping people from buying one copy of windows and then putting it on multiple machines. </p><p></p><p>Even though it would likely reauthorize itself the first time you made the switch it would also track that windows serial number and when you dropped it back into the old machine it would have to do the reauthorization again... at some point you would not be able to reauthorize it without talking to microsofts help line at which point you would find that Windows was authorized for one computer only and they would advise you to purchase another copy of windows for your home machine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thomas998, post: 1015343, member: 111388"] Just so you know it isn't just a Mac problem... If you took that hard drive out and dropped it into another random Windows machine it would likely not work perfectly if at all because there are hundreds of different graphics cards, network adapter, DVD units and each one has its own driver which your windows was setup with for the machine it is on... And even if you had a computer at home that was configured exactly as the one at work the pop up with a Windows authorization issue would become a problem because windows checks serial numbers on hard drives, CPUs and verifies that the graphics cards are the same. Whenever it sees a different hard drive or graphic card or processor it trips a little flag and once certain number of flags are tripped it has to be reauthorized... Even if you bought an identical computer to the one you have at work this problem would pop up and get you. It is microsofts method of keeping people from buying one copy of windows and then putting it on multiple machines. Even though it would likely reauthorize itself the first time you made the switch it would also track that windows serial number and when you dropped it back into the old machine it would have to do the reauthorization again... at some point you would not be able to reauthorize it without talking to microsofts help line at which point you would find that Windows was authorized for one computer only and they would advise you to purchase another copy of windows for your home machine. [/QUOTE]
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