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re: Customer Installed WRONG CD (win 2000) thus killing windows xp
Saturday, June 18, 2005 at 10:24 pm
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Posted by fishy (1 messages posted)


you can't grab a win2k cd and use an xpkey to install. won't work. the key uses a different hash.


On Saturday, May 22, 2004 at 8:26 pm, tutor wrote:
>My customer CLAIMS he installed grabbed the wrong CD and managed to install Windows
>2000 - thus wiping out Windows XP. There are no traces of Windows XP that I can find
>on this computer. How do I verify his story? On booting up, the menu says there is
>only ONE operating system W2K. Now, I can read the activation key (using Jellybean)
>- but can you tell by the key if this was originally a Windows XP O/S ? please respond
>to tutor @ cfl . rr . com
>


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Customer Installed WRONG CD (win 2000) thus killing windows xp (tutor: Saturday, May 22, 2004 at 8:26 pm)

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-Customer Installed WRONG CD (win 2000) thus killing windows xp (tutor: Sat, May 22, 2004, 8:26 pm)
*re: Customer Installed WRONG CD (win 2000) thus killing windows xp (DEX: Sat, May 22, 2004, 9:12 pm)
*re: Customer "Claims" he Installed WRONG CD (win 2000) thus killing windows xp (Kiwi: Sat, May 22, 2004, 9:32 pm)
-re: Customer Installed WRONG CD (win 2000) thus killing windows xp (werner: Sun, May 23, 2004, 9:00 am)
-re: Customer Installed WRONG CD (win 2000) thus killing windows xp (tutor: Sun, May 23, 2004, 10:12 am)
*re: Customer Installed WRONG CD (win 2000) thus killing windows xp (werner: Sun, May 23, 2004, 1:47 pm)
*re: Customer Installed WRONG CD (win 2000) thus killing windows xp (Crash Override: Mon, May 24, 2004, 5:32 am)
-re: Customer Installed WRONG CD (win 2000) thus killing windows xp (DEX: Wed, May 26, 2004, 3:38 pm)
-re: Customer Installed WRONG CD (win 2000) thus killing windows xp (Bob: Tue, Nov 16, 2004, 5:01 am)
*re: Customer Installed WRONG CD (win 2000) thus killing windows xp (Ray: Wed, Jan 12, 2005, 1:30 pm)
*re: Customer Installed WRONG CD (win 2000) thus killing windows xp (fishy: Sat, Jun 18, 2005, 10:24 pm)
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