WinXP activation after Formatting

[Gunther]

Hi,

I formatted my hard drive and heard you can activate windows XP after
reinstalling by recopying that one *.dbl file in the
C:\Windows\System32 folder. I did it from Safemode with command line,
but when I restart it still asks me to activate. How do I activate with
this method?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

When you reformat your drive and reinstall
Windows XP, you can only activate using
the conventional activation procedure.

How to activate Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307890/en-us

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
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| Hi,
|
| I formatted my hard drive and heard you can activate windows XP after
| reinstalling by recopying that one *.dbl file in the
| C:\Windows\System32 folder. I did it from Safemode with command line,
| but when I restart it still asks me to activate. How do I activate with
| this method?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi,

I formatted my hard drive and heard you can activate windows XP after
reinstalling by recopying that one *.dbl file in the
C:\Windows\System32 folder.

You heard wrong. That method works only under a very limited set of
circumstances.

I did it from Safemode with command line,
but when I restart it still asks me to activate. How do I activate with
this method?

You can't. Activate in the normal manner.


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Bruce Chambers

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