Install XP with different product key code?
- From: "mad NAT'er" <madNAT@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:46:52 -0500
I'm doing some volunteer work for an organization that supplies
used/refurbished computers to homeless shelters. Part of that work involves
upgrading the OS (say from Windows 98) and upgrading Office as well. In
trying to work on a group of PCs today I discovered the XP disk could not be
read by the PCs. Looking at the disk, the problem was a crack running
through part of the disk rendering it unreadable.
This is a disk supplied by MicroSoft to the organization for the purpose we
are using it for. We have the proper product key codes as well but we can't
use the disk. My guess is the disk has been used so many times that in
handling it someone cracked it. Can I use another XP disk to install the OS
but use the product key code assigned to the organization by MS for the
cracked CD?
Perhaps something in the installation files of the XP disk is looking for a
specific product key. In this case, entering a different, but valid, key
would not work. Does anyone know?
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