Sunday, November 6, 2011

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Now: MC to Symphony upgrade now Dual Boot Adobe Activation?

AFAIK, Avid's activation registers something from the motherboard, not the HDD. Possibly the MAC address? Someone will chime in.

On 6 Nov 2011, at 10:18, namrbius wrote:

> Most products like MS Windows register what type of CPU or (sometimes) your HDD for their activation processes. You can usually call them and tell them that you swapped out your hardware and they'll reactivate your system if you have any problems.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "jeffsengpiehl" <jeffsengpiehl@...> wrote:
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> > Yes it would- it would NOT however allow you to pop the drive into another CPU and use the activation there.
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> > JDS
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> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@> wrote:
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> > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@> wrote:
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> > > <<So if I had a fully functional avid boot drive with software activation for the Avid and everything is working fine with all my apps if I clone that drive if I had a drive melt down then I could put in the cloned boot drive and Avid would still work, right? This would prevent the catch 22 of a drive melt down with software activation.>>
> > >
> > > I don't know for sure as I have dongles. Everything else that is activated, Windows, MacDrive, Adobe, etc. works on the cloned drive.
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With best wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk
+44 7973 543 660


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