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sysprep CD key
Name: jimtimuk Date: February 28, 2005 at 06:50:36 Pacific OS: win 2000 pro CPU/Ram: 1024
Comment:
we used sysprep to chnge some windows 2000 CD keys,the problem is now no matter what CD we type into the box it says "the CD Key you entered is not valid" the machine was running win2kpro for about a year then we used sysprep 1.1 and it wont accept any serial key we enter, i cant get into windows now on that machine please help i have found no usefularticles on this
Name: landon Date: February 28, 2005 at 18:28:01 Pacific
Reply:
Look at this site to see if it will help:
http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBH/tip3800/rh3876.htm
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Response Number 2
Name: jimtimuk Date: February 28, 2005 at 23:52:12 Pacific
Reply:
Is there another way of doing it because we have about 19 computers with the incorrect serial key and want to change it for all of them using sysprep. from the article u have sent me i have to get into windows, but i cannot get into windows as i cant get past the serial key page on the sysprep menu.IT WONT BOOT INTO WINDOWS..........................
i dont want to have this problem for 19 machines.... is there another newewer version of sysprep? or a hotfix or service pack? is version 1.1 which we have used for win2k is that the latest version????
Summary: Ali, There are a couple of things you need to keep in mind when rolling out enmass. The first is your SIDs. If you're using Ghost you need to run SysPrep prior to ghosting the image or else every sys...