I reloaded a Winders XP on this Compaq thing the guy at the Habitat
store gave me, I had the activation code off some other dead box someone
else gave me (the guy stripped off the sticker on the Habitat box for
some reason). It called home and liked the code, so that was that.
Then my son had an old Acer laptop that got corrupted, no recovery
disks, I found an image of WinXP Media Center on the tubes (the Acer
site said MSFT made them take down their recovery disk image), used that
to reinstall the OS, then put in the code that was on the laptop sticker
and it was happy. The main issue seems to be if the code is valid.
They are still all noodgie about old XP installs, I guess they want you
to go buy Win7 or something. I have upgraded my 15yo WinXP off an IBM
box I bought back in like 1997, it is like Abe Lincoln's ax with 6 new
handles and 4 new heads -- 3 or 4 mobos, 3 or 4 HDs, but it still lives
on the original install (or an upgrade I got, I forget which)!
--R
On 1/16/12 8:27 AM, Allan Streib wrote:
Windows
complained it was not "genuine" but I re-entered the product key from
the sticker and it activated without complaint. I am guessing for old
versions (this is Vista) Microsoft allows occasional reactivations, as
long as the same key is not being obviously re-used on dozens of
installs.
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