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sorry i pressed the button twice

thanks man! it's very strange if you ask me.... it won't authenticate any CD-KEY on my laptop Not the one I bought from the store, neither the OEM CD I got from the manufacturer. BTW, I haven't gotten down to making an unattended install just yet... On Pro I tried slipstreaming the SP2 on the install and the OEM original cd will do the same thing! I can't install Windows and I got a VB exercise to hand in tonight! HEEEEELP! About the patch: can I slipstream it onto a CD? If not what do I do with it? Thanks in advance!

Hi, all. Great forums! First of all sorry if this has been posted before but search refused to find it. I make a slipstreamed Windows XP Pro CD with SP2 and after trying to install i get to the screen where it asks for your CD-KEY which upon entering is reported to be wrong by Windows.... I can't seem to find what the problem is.... Could it be the fact that I copied the xp installation files not from my original cd but from the backup I made? Also the CD I got with my notebook which is supposed to contain XP home + SP1 just sits and asks for the SP2 cd. The thing is: SP2 wasn't out when I bought the machine! Could this be due to my installing SP2 over the net? How do I work around this? It doesn't go to the format screen... Thanks a lot for any input...