so the gf fubared her latop and i'm finally gettin around to fixing it. she deosn't have a restore partition or recovery disc. she has a coa but when i attempt to activate windows it won't give me an install key.called ms talked with them for 2hrs and got nothing. i googled it and all the methods around it involved safe mode which doesn't work. anybody have an idea on how i can make this work ? will i have to activate a sp1 version of xp?

1/20/2009 2:31:13 PM

this is what happens when you do things the legal way

1/20/2009 2:41:51 PM

yea i'm frustrated and ab to dl some of that illegal stuff just so she can stfu .

1/20/2009 7:47:17 PM

i really don't even get what the problem is. i've downloaded many windows CD's from torrent sites when I couldn't my CD, used the code on the sticker on the computer..if it didn't work I'd call MS and go through some automated shit and they'd give me a long ass code to put in and it'd work. Not really sure what the problem is here.

[Edited on January 20, 2009 at 7:55 PM. Reason : asfd]

1/20/2009 7:55:02 PM

so when the code is supposed to be generated to get the validation code nothing happens. so i call ms and say the system didn't generate the code i give them so they can give me a code. i get transfrered and lost forever... i don't know why the system isn't generating that code.

1/20/2009 8:07:50 PM

^^^^

if you have a COA, then fuck it. They really cant sue you over a key. You have what you paid for. Im sorry to say but that sticker is what you really are buying...

1/20/2009 11:57:00 PM