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This is an area that I am not entirely familiar with, hence the following question.
I have a service customer some of whose problems can be traced to a bootleg Windows XP Pro install. When I apprised her of this, she "did the right thing" and obtained a legal OEM copy of XP Pro.
What I would like to do is an in-place reinstall to pick up the new, legal key and a new activation -- while losing as little of the current install as possible. Can anybody give me some quick pointers? Are there instructions somewhere for doing this?
As always, any help is appreciated.
I have a service customer some of whose problems can be traced to a bootleg Windows XP Pro install. When I apprised her of this, she "did the right thing" and obtained a legal OEM copy of XP Pro.
What I would like to do is an in-place reinstall to pick up the new, legal key and a new activation -- while losing as little of the current install as possible. Can anybody give me some quick pointers? Are there instructions somewhere for doing this?
As always, any help is appreciated.
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i belive there is a tool out there that will let you change the key.
if you do a reinstall you wont be able to keep any installed programs. however you can keep physical files
if you do a reinstall you wont be able to keep any installed programs. however you can keep physical files
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Originally Posted by TallCool1
I have a service customer some of whose problems can be traced to a bootleg Windows XP Pro install.
Yeah, you can change the key without reinstalling, if that's possible.
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try this it is what i had to do to install the SP1 a while back ,but since formated and didn't reinstall SP1.
http://www.subvers.com/technobabble/html/XP.htm
http://www.subvers.com/technobabble/html/XP.htm
OK....
I have XP installed on a hard drive which has corrupted, if I get a new hard drive, will I be able to re-activate XP on the new drive?
I have XP installed on a hard drive which has corrupted, if I get a new hard drive, will I be able to re-activate XP on the new drive?
I can't believe the answers I'm seeing here - they're rather bizarre responses to a simple question!
An 'In-place upgrade' should reset the lot. It'll activate as a new installation. All it does is reinstall Windows over the top of the existing installation, using the codes and keys of the new OEM CD. You even have to install updates again afterwards.
Edit: Yes DWard, you'll be able to re-activate. The worst you'd cop would be the need to reactivate by phone, but I doubt that would happen.
An 'In-place upgrade' should reset the lot. It'll activate as a new installation. All it does is reinstall Windows over the top of the existing installation, using the codes and keys of the new OEM CD. You even have to install updates again afterwards.
Edit: Yes DWard, you'll be able to re-activate. The worst you'd cop would be the need to reactivate by phone, but I doubt that would happen.
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Originally Posted by TallCool1
This is an area that I am not entirely familiar with, hence the following question.
I have a service customer some of whose problems can be traced to a bootleg Windows XP Pro install. When I apprised her of this, she "did the right thing" and obtained a legal OEM copy of XP Pro.
What I would like to do is an in-place reinstall to pick up the new, legal key and a new activation -- while losing as little of the current install as possible. Can anybody give me some quick pointers? Are there instructions somewhere for doing this?
As always, any help is appreciated.
sysprep is in the deploy.cab on the xp cd. Read the included .chm files first before using sysprep
It's not real hard to do an In-place upgrade, and you don't have to sit there watching!
Here's the Microsoft info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp
Why get too technical when it's not necessary?
Here's the Microsoft info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp
Why get too technical when it's not necessary?
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Originally Posted by TallCool1
This is an area that I am not entirely familiar with, hence the following question.
I have a service customer some of whose problems can be traced to a bootleg Windows XP Pro install. When I apprised her of this, she "did the right thing" and obtained a legal OEM copy of XP Pro.
What I would like to do is an in-place reinstall to pick up the new, legal key and a new activation -- while losing as little of the current install as possible. Can anybody give me some quick pointers? Are there instructions somewhere for doing this?
As always, any help is appreciated.
Changing the microsoft keyhttp://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;328874
Changing the Key at activationhttp://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;810892
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