re: Repair Xp
Monday, March 23, 2009 at 9:05 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6528 messages posted)
No, just any CD can not be used. If it is a big manufacturer PC with a preinstalled
system, chances are highly likely that you have to use the options/recovery media
that they would have provided, otherwise you can have issues and also issues with
activation, which shouldn't/wouldn't be needed with a big OEM machine.
If a geniune MS CD was used (retail, OEM, HOME and PRO, full install, upgrade etc),
then you need the same flavor that is installed on the machine, plus the key that
was used. There are keyfinders on the net, and you will need to get the key before
you start a repair, if there isn't a COA isn't mounted on the case anywhere with
the key number. You also need to have the same SP on the disk, otherwise, sometimes
the repair can fail, or at the very least, you will be repairing back to whatever
the disc is that you are using. (which can cause some issues in my experience, ie
with some installed software that may require a different SP). The keys are not
interchangable between flavors of XP.
W2K didn't have the HOME/PRO flavor, but did have the retail, OEM, full install,
upgrade flavors, and you did have to use the same disc as the install, with perferably
the same SP (service pack) especially where you had installed a large HDD and had
enabled 48 bit LBA with an SP that supported large disks. The key is also different
for each version. If you went backward in the SP version, then you could corrupt
a large HDD (greater than 137 MB).
- Written in response to:
- re: Repair Xp (John: Monday, March 23, 2009 at 7:48 am)
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