big problem with product activation

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Last thursday one of our Dell's crappy maxtor HHD took the
dive of death. Called up punjab tech support he verified i
had a bad hdd and sent me a replacement. i got it 25 hours
later (cudos to dell and punjab support). in the meantime
i rescued the image i had of the system from another disk
partition and dumped it to an old ibm 20 giger and
installed it so the user could work. i hooked the new hdd
up and ghosted the temp over to the new hdd today. it
works.


EXCEPT NOW I CAN'T LOG ONTO THE BOX BECAUSE MY PRODUCT
ACTIVATION IS NOW INVALID. i got that message once and
thats it. any attempt to log onto the system with that hdd
results in the system logging you off. how the heck do i
get into it to re activate?
 
Windows XP Logs You Off When You Try to Activate the Product
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330136&Product=winxp

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

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Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| Last thursday one of our Dell's crappy maxtor HHD took the
| dive of death. Called up punjab tech support he verified i
| had a bad hdd and sent me a replacement. i got it 25 hours
| later (cudos to dell and punjab support). in the meantime
| i rescued the image i had of the system from another disk
| partition and dumped it to an old ibm 20 giger and
| installed it so the user could work. i hooked the new hdd
| up and ghosted the temp over to the new hdd today. it
| works.
|
|
| EXCEPT NOW I CAN'T LOG ONTO THE BOX BECAUSE MY PRODUCT
| ACTIVATION IS NOW INVALID. i got that message once and
| thats it. any attempt to log onto the system with that hdd
| results in the system logging you off. how the heck do i
| get into it to re activate?
|
 
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