Linda, Peter, Ben; thanks for the replies. Yes, this was the corporate version and the first time & only time I have installed it. I got it working; seems 12+ hrs of straight work had exhausted me more than I thought, I should have saved this 'project' for when I woke up. I went through this process again and this time it worked. I was leaving out the step MS mentioned about going into the registry and changing at least one character of that dword or binary value, THEN running that command line (I found that exact same info at the URL below @ the MS site). I still don't know why this happened in the first place. I guess it goes back to being exhausted when I first started to check out XP & screwed something up along the way.
Now when I eventually put XP on my main HD, should I format as FAT or NTFS? What are the advantages/disadvantages of NTFS? When I was checking it out this time, I opted for FAT. -Clint God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner Want to exchange links with us? http://OrpheusComputing.com � --------------------------------- >Hi all. I knew I would have XP problems, but not like this. >I finally got around to installing it, and I can't even get >SP1 installed, it keeps saying I have an invalid product ID! >This is EXACTLY what is happening here; > http://www.labmice.net/WindowsXP/articles/changeID.htm I did >those steps and even VERIFIED it ok, and no surprise it >doesn't work. > >This is XP Corporate Pro, and if it didn't have a valid >product ID then I would never have been able to install it! >This sounds like a common problem, so what are we supposed to >do? >-Clint ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
