Windows Genuine Validation, Updating Failed After Installing XP Ho

[Guest]

My Dell Dimension 8200 hard disk drive went bad. Had to replace it with a
clean compatible hard drive. I deleted the existing partition and reformatted
with NTFS.

I reinstalled Windows XP Home using the Dell reinstallation CD. Started the
Windows Update process. when I got to Windows Genuine Validation, updating
failed. The error message was 0x80004005 Windows Product Activation error.

I was never prompted to enter the 25 alpha-numeric windows Product ID Key.

I called Dell. They told me to call Microsoft. MS said this was an OEM CD
from Dell. Their advice was to go to the MS support website or call the 800
number.

What do I need to do to get Windows reinstalled, activated and updated?

 

[Roy Coorne]

My Dell Dimension 8200 hard disk drive went bad. Had to replace it with a
clean compatible hard drive. I deleted the existing partition and reformatted
with NTFS.

I reinstalled Windows XP Home using the Dell reinstallation CD. Started the
Windows Update process. when I got to Windows Genuine Validation, updating
failed. The error message was 0x80004005 Windows Product Activation error.

I was never prompted to enter the 25 alpha-numeric windows Product ID Key.

I called Dell. They told me to call Microsoft. MS said this was an OEM CD
from Dell. Their advice was to go to the MS support website or call the 800
number.

What do I need to do to get Windows reinstalled, activated and updated?

Whom do you have a contract with?

If 'Dell' doesn't show proper reaction, write to Mr Michael Dell;-)


Roy

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Windows Genuine Advantage - Diagnostic Site
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/diag/

Download and install the WGA Diagnostic Tool:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012

The Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation check process
does not complete when you try to validate your copy of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905226/en-us

You receive a "Validation Incomplete: Online Validation Failure"
error message or a "0x80080204" error code when you try to validate Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906533/en-us

Windows Genuine Advantage Newsgroup
http://forums.microsoft.com/Genuine/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=125&SiteID=25


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

---------------------------------------------------------------------------­----------------

:

| My Dell Dimension 8200 hard disk drive went bad. Had to replace it with a
| clean compatible hard drive. I deleted the existing partition and reformatted
| with NTFS.
|
| I reinstalled Windows XP Home using the Dell reinstallation CD. Started the
| Windows Update process. when I got to Windows Genuine Validation, updating
| failed. The error message was 0x80004005 Windows Product Activation error.
|
| I was never prompted to enter the 25 alpha-numeric windows Product ID Key.
|
| I called Dell. They told me to call Microsoft. MS said this was an OEM CD
| from Dell. Their advice was to go to the MS support website or call the 800
| number.
|
| What do I need to do to get Windows reinstalled, activated and updated?

 

[Plato]

My Dell Dimension 8200 hard disk drive went bad. Had to replace it with a
clean compatible hard drive. I deleted the existing partition and reformatted
with NTFS.

I reinstalled Windows XP Home using the Dell reinstallation CD. Started the
Windows Update process. when I got to Windows Genuine Validation, updating
failed. The error message was 0x80004005 Windows Product Activation error.

I was never prompted to enter the 25 alpha-numeric windows Product ID Key.

I called Dell. They told me to call Microsoft. MS said this was an OEM CD
from Dell. Their advice was to go to the MS support website or call the 800
number.

What do I need to do to get Windows reinstalled, activated and updated?

Ask Mr. DEll. or get a key from MS.

 

[kurttrail]

My Dell Dimension 8200 hard disk drive went bad. Had to replace it
with a clean compatible hard drive. I deleted the existing partition
and reformatted with NTFS.

I reinstalled Windows XP Home using the Dell reinstallation CD.
Started the Windows Update process. when I got to Windows Genuine
Validation, updating failed. The error message was 0x80004005 Windows
Product Activation error.

I was never prompted to enter the 25 alpha-numeric windows Product ID
Key.

I called Dell. They told me to call Microsoft. MS said this was an
OEM CD from Dell. Their advice was to go to the MS support website or
call the 800 number.

What do I need to do to get Windows reinstalled, activated and
updated?

http://microscum.kurttrail.com/postsp2

You are already installed, and most Dell's are Bios-Locked, so you won't
need to activate. Your problem is with validation (WGA), and getting
updates. At the link above, you can get all the critical updates off of
MS's download server without the need to validate.


--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[Phil Anthropist]

My Dell Dimension 8200 hard disk drive went bad. Had to replace it with a
clean compatible hard drive. I deleted the existing partition and
reformatted
with NTFS.

I reinstalled Windows XP Home using the Dell reinstallation CD. Started
the
Windows Update process. when I got to Windows Genuine Validation, updating
failed. The error message was 0x80004005 Windows Product Activation error.

I was never prompted to enter the 25 alpha-numeric windows Product ID Key.

I called Dell. They told me to call Microsoft. MS said this was an OEM CD
from Dell. Their advice was to go to the MS support website or call the
800
number.

What do I need to do to get Windows reinstalled, activated and updated?

On the matter of who is responsible for Windows XP support, it is Dell if
you have Windows XP OEM and Microsoft if you have Windows XP retail.

 

[Alias]

On the matter of who is responsible for Windows XP support, it is Dell if
you have Windows XP OEM and Microsoft if you have Windows XP retail.

Dell created the WGA spyware? That's news to me.

Alias