Re: Product Validation After Reformat/Reinstall

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"Allogene" <Allogene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I recently had a virus attack that messed up a bunch of my files and
deleted
a few keys in the registry necessary for the full functioning of Windows.
I
want to reformat and reinstall XP but will have to validate again.

*** Yes.

Won't the validation procedure at MS see that I already validated
the same copy of XP before

*** Yes, it will.

and nullify my validation?

*** No. It "knows" that this is a valid installation on the same
*** machine on which it was previously registered. It will simply
*** confirm the re-registration.

It is a new retail version of XP Pro.
What can I do? I'm sure that this was answered many times but I've
searched
through the threads a bit and couldn't find an answer.
Thanks


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