Re: Is the product key on the XP Home upgrade disk?
- From: "Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]" <dknoxNO@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 23:37:22 -0400
As JW said, as long as you use your CD Key, you're legal. But if your nephew has a full retail CD, it won't take the OEM key. And if its an OEM version, it may not install (or fail to activate) on your PC if its from another vendor.
Personally, I'd bite the bullet and spend the $30 on a legit version that you know will install on your system in the future.
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"RonC" <RonC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:01866DB5-A557-4CD3-BA3A-430AA0B4A59F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Regretably, I formated that partition also. Stupid sometimes. After reading
for hours the posts on this site, I decided to ask my nephew (a hardware
repair guy) to install a copy of XP Home Edition SP2 on my computer and use
my product key (that's on the side of the computer) to validate. Is this
legal and reasonable? Your response will be followed.
"Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]" wrote:
No, the Product key is nowhere on the CD. Check your Compaq's manual for
how to the provided recovery method. Normally this is a hidden partition on
the hard disk and is access during the initial POST of the computer. This
"recovery partition" is separate from the OS partition, and unless you
formatted that, as well, you should be able to use it to put your system
back to its "out of box" condition.
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Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart
Display\Security
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
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http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
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"RonC" <RonC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a Compaq SR1403WM with a valid XP sp2 windows product key. It
>caught
> a virus and I had to reformat the drive to get rid of it. I bought it
> with
> the OS installed and have no recovery disks. I have an XP sp1 upgrade
> disk
> but cannot find the product key for it. I have valid Upgrade 95 and 98
> with
> the Product keys but want XP back on the Compaq. HP will sell me > recovery
> disks for $30 but can I find the Product key somewhere on the actual XP
> upgrade disk?
.
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