Windows XP Key

[landoni88]

Hi all, I'm new to these forums so not so sure on what sort of assistance I am going to get here. I've read all forums and have not found anyone to seem to have the same issue as me.

I had a laptop that I bought off a friend. It had windows 98 on it.

I uploaded windows vista to it and then stupidly lost the disc.

Everything was fine for a few months and I realised I had just about had enough with windows vista so I borrowed a Windows Xp home edition from a friend. I uploaded it all the way till the point of inputting the product key.

At this point he told me he hasn't got the product key :|.

So I had Installed windows xp home without a product key, and Cannot workout how to Basically, get rid of it.

I tried loading a Windows xp professional disc ( my own), ( and yes i had the product key for once:) )

But the Windows xp Home edition product key input would not dissapear.

That is where I am up to so far.

Really looking for some helpful assistance.

Thank you all very much in advance.

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[slimzky]

I don't get it. If you loaded your Windows XP pro disc, then you should be able to type the Product key on the empty boxes.

[Ponch]

First, a laptop that comes loaded with Win98 is unlikely to run Vista "fine" for a few months (depending on the whole story).

Secondly, you cannot upgrade from Vista to XP, so you had to start from scratch.

--> do the same with your XP pro.

Of course you erased you XP pro from your other machine to use that serial for your "new" laptop(?).

[Tripredacus]

If you are fine with removing all the data on the drive, you need to boot off the XP Pro CD to install. Do not put the CD in while booted into Windows, it will not always let you install the OS from there.