July 9, 200620 yr I am trying to activate windows after reinstalling it on my IBM Thinkpad X31. For some reason it thinks my key is invalid, but I know it is genuine because i was using it fine with my laptop before. I have made no major hardware changes.I have, however, used a non-ibm oem version of XP to install from as my laptop only came with a recovery partition (which i accidentally wiped out) and no disks.Do I need to use a different type of XP cd? Past experience tells me that pro corp. won't even accept oem keys. So do i need something else entirely. Anyone know a way to solve this?Thanks in advance
July 9, 200620 yr Anyone know a way to solve this?Yeah, but it isn't legal Edited July 9, 200620 yr by LeveL
July 9, 200620 yr Author Anyone know a way to solve this?Yeah, but it isn't legal lol that's why i use linux on all my other computers. Microsoft's piracy protection is so stupid! It is far easier to use a pirated copy of XP than it is to actually buy the thing!!! What were they thinking!? Edited July 9, 200620 yr by aktivedesign
July 9, 200620 yr Author Well, I decided to admit defeat and just call micro$oft and follow their telephone activation procedure... 17minutes and 28seconds later I finally got activated. I hate windows.
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