Thanks for your feedback. What I did was reinstall OS again and put another product key in and it worked perfectly. I think I used the key so many times activating and then it did not want to accept it.
After several different attempts to reinstall XP with a genuine holographed cd and genuine key - including things like completely wiping PC hard drive etc etc ad infinitum, this was my solution - do a search on the internet for "windows xp activation key" there will be plenty of results select two or three or four, depending on the age of the installation disk you have some pirated codes may have been included on the disk to be excluded if you get my drift.
So install freshly xp use the pirated activation code for me this worked first time then when you come to do the final activation over the net or by phone I chose phone cos you can change the software key back to your original paid for and owned and genuine xp code get the necessary digits put them in and xp is ready to go.
Thank Christ for that. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. But none of the above is the method to manually activate Windows XP presented in here. The object of this article is to let you in on a way to easily and effortlessly re-activate you copy of Windows XP after a reinstall.
This implies that you already have a genuine and activated copy of Windows XP to begin with. But in case you have to format your hard drive, or just the XP partition, and install XP all over again, you can spare yourself the time and labor to re-activate the operating system, according to the SunbeltBlog. All you have to do is make your way to the C:WindowsSystem32 folder and identify the 'wpa. Navigate to System32 where you will be able to find the 'wpa. Since you already have the old files on your portable media simply rename these as 'wpadbl.
Mangraviti Guest. I have the exact same problem. A client dropped his netbook on the floor and had a cracked screen and a bad HDD. Replaced them both. Everything went fine, as usual. I always do the exact same process with XP, Vista and 7. If the person has an OEM key it will activate from a OEM disc - even though it's not the one given by the manufacturer in this case, Toshiba. The only difference is that if doing this with Win7, you can't activate online and must call that phone number they give you at that wizard screen.
My install was perfect. Everything went smooth and etc. When it rebooted for the last time and asked to confim if I could "see that box on the screen", the problem began: I got a window saying that "you must activate Windows before log on - Do you want to do this now"?
I select Yes and it offered me three options: 1 Yes, I want to activate online impossible as I didn't have the network drivers installed 2 Yes, I want to telephone 3 Log off I selected the option "I want to telephone" but the installation ID number was not there. I had a blank gap, with nothing on it. I called anyway and got the automated service.
After pressing a million buttons on my phone, I got through a person who said he couldn't help because there is no installation ID. I had to call on Monday today is Saturday some other department in order to get help. That was not an option as I needed to return this laptop to my client tomorrow Sunday. Whatever option I picked, would lead me to the same "You must activate windows" screen. Somehow, after several reboots, it loged on.
Don't ask me how, but it did. Then, I installed all the drivers, without rebooting. When I rebooted, I got back to the same "You must activate windows". The solution: 1 Formatted the hard drive 2 Installed Windows XP Professional 3 Cracked and made a few changes to the registry 4 I'm just installing the lastest updates now. I am so happy that I use Linux. So bloody happy. And I am even happier because Windows exists.
Otherwise, computers wouldn't stop working and I'd have no job at all.
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