Those CD's only work with Volume license keys. If you can acquire an OEM CD, you may or may not have success.
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:18 PM, James Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
