Re: Downloading Media centre using a valid CD-key

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You should be able to purchase the media from Dell, as long as you purchased the machine from them in the first place.

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"Charchiclofner" <Charchiclofner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:23F0161B-86EC-4690-96F8-52D5DA5AFE07@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am trying to fix my friends laptop. It's a dell Inspiron 9400 and came with
a copy of Media centre installed and a product key on the bottom of the
laptop but no installation CD. Is there any way I can retrieve a copy of said
CD using the product key, possibly by downloading from microsoft? Thank you
very much.
Luke

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