Activating Windows help

[Guest]

I would appreciate some help for this please. At one time I did not have a
legit CD-KEY for XP unitil a couple of weeks ago when I get free microsoft
products from my school. So I have a legit copy of XP now with the cdkey, I
changed the cdkey for XP and it went in fine. I tried updated to SP1 and it
goes through fine but after rebooting it asks me to activate windows again, I
tried doing the online option but it tells me it is no longer availble and to
phone it in, i phone it in and go through all the prompts and it then tells
me that this ID is for a system with xp already installed and to just to try
the change cd key option which I did try and it tells me it is an incorrect
CD key. Can some one please help me on how to fix this, If you need anymore
info just ask

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Where did you get your 'legit' copy of XP from? Perhaps you ought contact
them to see if they can help.

 

[Guest]

I got it from my college I go to because we have some contract with microsoft
to get free microsoft products, I already asked the person that I am suppose
to go to for support and he does not know. Does any one have suggestions?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Jeff;
See if this applies:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/invalpk.htm

Contact the source of the CD and Product Key to verify legitimacy.

Also see:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/howtotell/ww/default.mspx

 

[Guest]

That doesn't really apply for this situation. You see what we do is we go
onto this webpage that you enter in your username and password and you
reserve a copy of the CD that you want, for example XP, so after you reserve
it you get a CD key for the software for one time use and it is unique for
each user. When I went to try activating it on the phone with that automative
machine or whatever it said something on the lines of my ID shows this copy
of XP is for a computer that has XP already installed on it coming from a
store. The only thing I can really think of is going around the activation...
but I don't really want to

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Jeff;
Contact the source of the Product Key, they may have a solution.

Try a Repair Installation using the new key and CD:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/repaxp.htm

Otherwise you may need to start over with a Clean Installation:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/cleanxp.htm