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Windows XP Home CD Key
Name: curly_wotsits Date: May 31, 2005 at 04:40:16 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: 2.8/512
Comment:
Hi there,
I have been having major problems with my PC and this weekend i finally got it fixed - YAY!!!
But i had to put ME on it as i dont have an XP home cd. I have my XP home cd key and can anybody tell me if i can use any xp home cd and my own key?
Name: Johnw Date: May 31, 2005 at 05:18:51 Pacific
Reply:
Should work , format the drive 1st .
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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser Date: May 31, 2005 at 05:21:11 Pacific
Reply:
Yes it will work.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: May 31, 2005 at 05:22:01 Pacific
Reply:
Ops sorry JohnW I didn't see your post :-)
i_XpUser
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Response Number 4
Name: Johnw Date: May 31, 2005 at 05:27:06 Pacific
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No probs XpUser , its in your good hands now , going to bed .
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Response Number 5
Name: BuzzStPoint Date: May 31, 2005 at 07:22:52 Pacific
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Curiousity has gotten the better of me..
Why would you have a key but no XP cd? Hmm.. anyways as XPuser and John said it will work. Only a few exception.. It has to be XP home.. Pro will not work nor will an OEM version work. Vice Versa.
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Response Number 6
Name: XpUser Date: May 31, 2005 at 07:25:38 Pacific
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Ditto to that Buzz.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 7
Name: curly_wotsits Date: May 31, 2005 at 09:59:35 Pacific
Reply:
thank you very much for all your responses.
for some reason i didnt get a disk with the computer but i got a cd key!!! very annoying!!!!
Hopefully my friend will remember to bring it in for me tomorrow!
thanks again
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Response Number 8
Name: Rich Mentzel Date: May 31, 2005 at 10:33:31 Pacific
Reply:
If you did not get a disk, are you certain there isn't a restore built into your hard drive? That is the oonly reason I can think of for you having the cd key and no cd, as many makers are now doing that.
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Response Number 9
Name: XpUser Date: May 31, 2005 at 10:58:16 Pacific
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Rich is correct.
You wrote: ..for some reason i didnt get a disk with the computer but i got a cd key!!! very annoying!!!!
This means that the key you have is a COA and not a valid product id key. You cannot use what you have with any retail XP CD. You need to contact the machine manufacturer for restore CD.
Incidentialky you misled your system stat which made it harder for us to help you.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 10
Name: jefro Date: June 1, 2005 at 15:29:48 Pacific
Reply:
Not sure they have to give you the CD nor the CD image at all.
Best bet is to see how your computer maker offers a restore/recover method. Might be a hidden partition. Might have to make CD's. Might even have to order them at extra cost. You may have destroyed the data. Usually the maker offers replacement disks. I know Sony did and IBM did.
Why you would have a KEY and not a valid right to use the software is beyond me. You can put that software on ONE computer with limited exceptions. Your key is MS's way to prove that it is valid.
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Response Number 11
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: June 1, 2005 at 22:40:44 Pacific
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It's beyond me why anybody would buy/run a box with no way to reinstall the OS.
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Response Number 12
Name: Rich Mentzel Date: June 2, 2005 at 06:48:26 Pacific
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