Multiple Partition Licensing

[Zed]

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I want to install the same copy of Windows 2000 Prof. on 4 different
partitions on the same machine, so we can have 4 different and
independent environments to test our products. My question is: to have
4 partitions on the same machine, with the same copy of Windows 2000 in
each one of them, do I have to buy 4 licenses? The EULA says one copy
is for installation in one computer, but it says nothing about multiple
partitions...

Thanks in advance,

Z.

 

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Zed wrote:
> I want to install the same copy of Windows 2000 Prof. on 4 different
> partitions on the same machine, so we can have 4 different and
> independent environments to test our products. My question is: to have
> 4 partitions on the same machine, with the same copy of Windows 2000 in
> each one of them, do I have to buy 4 licenses? The EULA says one copy
> is for installation in one computer, but it says nothing about multiple
> partitions...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>

I asked this of MicroSoft a couple of years ago and I was told
that I could install one copy of W2K as many times as I wished on
a single machine so long as only one copy was running at any
given time.

However, he also said that if I was using a tool like VMWare and
running additional copies of W2K inside virtual machines, then I
need a separate license for each VM I was running.

He sent me a link to a couple of KB articles dealing with this
issue: I'll see if I can find that e-mail and post the links here.

 

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Thought about MS Virtual PC?

"Zed" <zed@teknisa.com> wrote in message
news:1123188231.471154.140310@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I want to install the same copy of Windows 2000 Prof. on 4 different
> partitions on the same machine, so we can have 4 different and
> independent environments to test our products. My question is: to have
> 4 partitions on the same machine, with the same copy of Windows 2000 in
> each one of them, do I have to buy 4 licenses? The EULA says one copy
> is for installation in one computer, but it says nothing about multiple
> partitions...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Z.
>

 

[Zed]

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Thanks a lot! I think I will need these KB articles...

Zed

 

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http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?catalog=LCID%3D1033&query=parallel+install


Zed wrote:

> Thanks a lot! I think I will need these KB articles...
>
> Zed
>