Hard drive transplant to new PC. Reinstall and reactivate needed?

[rsr427]

I currently have XP and rF1 installed on a WD Raptor HDD. I'm building a new PC running that will have W7 on a SSD, but I wanted to swap over the Raptor and run some games off of it. I don't intend on using the XP install on the Raptor, I want it to be a W7 machine only.

Will the rF install on the Raptor work if I install it as a data drive on the new PC and click rfactor.exe? I'd like to avoid having to go through the unlock process. I don't think it will go smoothly.

Thanks, Ryan

 

[Noel Hibbard]

You don't have to reinstall rFactor. You can simply move the drive and then run rFactor.exe as admin. But you will have to reactivate. The process is easy though.

I recently went through this process and had problems reactivating. If I recall it would bring up a blank window. I tried all the stuff that worked in the past (changing dates ect, ect) but nothing worked. I finally just created a new rF Lite install and it activated just fine. Once one install is activated and the TryMedia licence is installed, every rFactor install will work. So I just deleted that rF Lite install and went back to the old one.