Just a CD without a key. I know I can by just media from CDW or just
licenses for my job because I have volume licensing. Anyway it appears that
MS is saying I'm SOL, or my friend is anyway. Looks like she is going to
spend some $ if she wants this thing fixed.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Houseman" <[email protected]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 1:02 PM
Subject: RE: xp media
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
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