re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 6:37 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Crash Override (2170 messages posted) What OS is the COA for? XP Pro or XP Home? I bet you are trying to use an XP Pro license key with an XP Pro disk. You can't mix them like that. Regards, Crash Override, MCP On Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 8:53 am, Evan wrote: >Here's my story! > >I bought a lenovo laptop that was originally setup by a University for a student. > >as soon as i bought it, the hard drive crashed. > >i got a new hard-drive and reinstalled xp-pro. > >the COA is on the bottom of the computer, but it is not working. > >the disk i used to install xp-pro was a copy given to me from the store that fixed >the computer. > >any ideas???? > >thanks in advance > Written in response to: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Evan: Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 8:53 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Evan: Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 8:53 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Steve: Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 9:28 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (geek9pm: Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 5:00 pm) re: Comment about WinXP OEM CD (Kiwi: Mon, Sep 22, 2008, 8:11 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Rich Kurtz: Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 7:07 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Chuck: Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 9:33 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (appleoddity: Mon, Sep 22, 2008, 11:43 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Crash Override: Tue, Sep 23, 2008, 6:37 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Sep 23, 2008, 9:27 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Evan: Tue, Sep 23, 2008, 10:41 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum