We do not find this problem to be uncommon in some repair shops... Does your disk have the "Microsoft Certified" logo on the disk, and assure that it is an OEM version.
Be sure your disk is of the same Service Pack, and that it was not created for another branded computer. We have not seen this problem if the Windows XP disc is an OEM version of the same service pack. But "branded" versions of the Windows Disk used for Gateway, eMachines, HP, and Acer will sometimes present this problem. Then, the WXP disk must have been booted to a clean install. The problem was more common with WXP Service Pack 1 disks. RB On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Alex Austin <[email protected]>wrote: > Re-check the key watching for 0 vs O and 1 vs I. > On Oct 30, 2011 1:47 PM, "Jeffrey Race" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for advice to all who helped with idea > > to use Linux LiveCD to rescue data from wifie's > > Acer prior to install of a legal copy of WXP > > Pro (computer purchased in now-flooded Bangkok > > where they come only with pirate Windows). > > > > Problem: installed WXP from CD purchased from > > stall at MIT Swap Meet; it rejects product ID > > (on apparently genuine MS holographic label) > > as "invalid." > > > > Ideas why this might happen and whether there is > > a path with MS how to pursue to successful > > install? Or some other path to resolve on > > my own? > > > > Jeffrey Race > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thinkpad mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > -- * * ** I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock. . .. ... .... ...... ...... ........ Heny Youngman *** ********* _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
