aktivedesign Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 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
LeveL Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 (edited) Anyone know a way to solve this?Yeah, but it isn't legal Edited July 9, 2006 by LeveL
aktivedesign Posted July 9, 2006 Author Posted July 9, 2006 (edited) 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, 2006 by aktivedesign
aktivedesign Posted July 9, 2006 Author Posted July 9, 2006 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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