It's not clear what you're asking to buy. If you know a place to purchase CD's without license keys, I'd stay away from that like the plague. If you're asking if we know such a place, I wouldn't use one if I did.
If you purchase a CD with a license key, then just use the license key that comes with it. If you can scare up any "real" OEM CD (from friends or family), it *may* just work as long as the edition (Home/Pro/MCE) is the same. There are cases where generic CDs won't work, as I found with an old Toshiba laptop several years ago (wouldn't activate and MS won't approve the activation over the phone). Carl -----Original Message----- From: James Kerr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 11:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: xp media I have a laptop of a friend and its needs to have Windows XP Home reinstalled from scratch. They do not have the restore CDs and the restore partition doesnt have the required files. I called Gateway to buy restore CDs but they only have them for PCs no older than 3 years. Anyone know if it's possible to buy an XP home edition media CD and use the license key that came from Gateway that's on the laptop with it? James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
