XP CD for HP Notebook

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First of all I don't know if I am on the right group. Anyway I hope someone
can help me. I have a HP Notebook from one of my customers which has WinXP
installed with a legal OEM Key. For many times we had it in the Service
Center and honestly HP messed it right up. I am at a point now where I want
to install XP from scratch however, the Notebook didn't came with an OS CD.
I tired other OEM CD, which I have plenty, but somehow they don't accept the
Key from HP when I want to activate it. I have called MS to activate it by
phone and they told me that the key is issued to HP and I need an HP WinXP
OS. HP however won't give me a CD. Is there any way that I can do a clean
install of XP on this Notebook without all the crab which is on the created
recovery CD's after installation.

Thanks

Somchai

 

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Look for an i386 folder, and burn this to a CD.

Then boot from a DOS floppy or CD (with CD-driver support) and do

d: (CD letter)
cd i386
winnt