WINDOW XP Help

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I bought a Window XP Operating CD and bought Certificate
of Authenticity seperate. But the code doesn't want to
work on the CD i bought. What due I have to due to get
the darn thing to work? Thanx
 
Contact the seller of the Certificate of Authenticity
and ask them what Windows XP CD is required.
You may have purchased an OEM COA which will
only work with an OEM Windows XP CD.

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Carey Frisch
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Windows XP - Shell/User

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|I bought a Window XP Operating CD and bought Certificate
| of Authenticity seperate. But the code doesn't want to
| work on the CD i bought. What due I have to due to get
| the darn thing to work? Thanx
 
Go out and buy a legitimate RETAIL disk, which has both the CD and the
product code. Yours sound like a bootleg version, or maybe an OEM - which
could be hardware dependent.
 
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CP said:
I bought a Window XP Operating CD and bought Certificate
of Authenticity seperate. But the code doesn't want to
work on the CD i bought. What due I have to due to get
the darn thing to work?
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You probably can't. The type of CD (Home or Professional; Full,
Upgrade, or OEM) has to match the type of COA, and probably
doesn't.
 
CP said:
I bought a Window XP Operating CD and bought Certificate
of Authenticity seperate. But the code doesn't want to
work on the CD i bought. What due I have to due to get
the darn thing to work? Thanx
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It's like buying a safe without a combination, and then buying a combination
elsewhere. It's generally not going to work.

And considering there aren't a whole lot of legal ways to sell those 2
pieces separately, you probably aren't going to get much help from either
seller. If they're willing to :"steal" from MS who has lots of lawyers, I
doubt they're going to worry much about annoying a few customers.
 
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