I'm amazed but glad that it worked out for you. But did they tell you what to do, if you get something horrid and have to reinstall XP?
I've heard of CD type and code mismatches before, but this is the first time I've heard of an actual incident. I wonder where the problem lies. Oh well. --STeve Andre' On 12/31/11 10:51, Jeffrey Race wrote:
Finally I got back to Bangkok and visited the MS national office here, where (unlike in other countries) it is actually possible to meet a human face to face. The head of business software marketing accessed the product key and physical media databases and unearthed the fact that the WXP disc I had purchased had been repackaged by someone along the way to include a different product key. Both the key and the disc are genuine however. But they will not work together to load, as advised in my basic message. Out of shock that anyone would actually walk in the door in Bangkok and want to make a legal install, he volunteered one of his staff to perform some workaround so that my wife can have a legal install at the end of the process. Thanks to everyone for all your help. Jeffrey Race --Original Message Text---From: Alex Austin Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:52:21 -0500 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
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