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Ghost
Well I've tried contacting microsoft directly about this,
which was a total and complete failure, since it seems
they don't want to talk to me unless I fork over some
cash, Thanks Microsoft by the way, so I'm hoping someone
here can help me with this.
Ok here it is, a friend of mine a few months ago gave me
his copy of windows Xp professional, along with the
serial. I put it all away because at the time I wasn't too
interested in it. But a few days ago, I thought what the
hell and went to install it, I put the serial and all that
in, and it was installing fine, I got a few error messages
along the way, stuff about how a few of my cd drivers or
whatever were out of date but other than that it installed
perfectly. Anyhow I'm messing around with it, trying to
get used to the new look and all that since I've been on
98 for god knows how long, when I notice just a couple of
bugs, stuff like my computer not reading cd-r's anymore,
yep, it just stopped reading them period! I figured there
were a hell of a lot of updates for it, had also heard of
microsoft bringing out alot of fixes for it, so I went to
the windows update page to get some updates, when all of a
sudden I get this message saying that my serial or
whatever is illegal! and that it cant install any updates
becuse I guess my cd key has "pirated" written all over
it. So here I am, anybody have any ideas on what I should
do? I recently uninstalled it, it was doing me no good to
have it half work ya know? is all i need is a recognized
cd key? I have absolutely no idea on how to go about
getting one other than buying Xp, which I dont really want
to do since I have a perfectly good copy of it right here,
any ideas appreciated. Sorry for if this post is in the
wrong section, and sorry if I went on too long, I'm just
running out of ideas. Again thanks!
which was a total and complete failure, since it seems
they don't want to talk to me unless I fork over some
cash, Thanks Microsoft by the way, so I'm hoping someone
here can help me with this.
Ok here it is, a friend of mine a few months ago gave me
his copy of windows Xp professional, along with the
serial. I put it all away because at the time I wasn't too
interested in it. But a few days ago, I thought what the
hell and went to install it, I put the serial and all that
in, and it was installing fine, I got a few error messages
along the way, stuff about how a few of my cd drivers or
whatever were out of date but other than that it installed
perfectly. Anyhow I'm messing around with it, trying to
get used to the new look and all that since I've been on
98 for god knows how long, when I notice just a couple of
bugs, stuff like my computer not reading cd-r's anymore,
yep, it just stopped reading them period! I figured there
were a hell of a lot of updates for it, had also heard of
microsoft bringing out alot of fixes for it, so I went to
the windows update page to get some updates, when all of a
sudden I get this message saying that my serial or
whatever is illegal! and that it cant install any updates
becuse I guess my cd key has "pirated" written all over
it. So here I am, anybody have any ideas on what I should
do? I recently uninstalled it, it was doing me no good to
have it half work ya know? is all i need is a recognized
cd key? I have absolutely no idea on how to go about
getting one other than buying Xp, which I dont really want
to do since I have a perfectly good copy of it right here,
any ideas appreciated. Sorry for if this post is in the
wrong section, and sorry if I went on too long, I'm just
running out of ideas. Again thanks!