re: XP Corporate edittion Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 9:01 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (7132 messages posted) The Product Key (PK) on the Certificate of Authenticity (CoA) on the Dell is a valid, genuine PK. It is an OEM PK, however, and will only work with an OEM XP installation CD. Microsoft Windows XP PKs are generated by using a different algorithm for each variety or flavor. So OEM PKs won't work to install retail CDs or Volume Licensing CDs and vice versa. You probably have a retail CD or a downloaded/bootleg Volume Licensing (aka "corporate") CD. Visit this Dell website to get a replacement Dell OS Reinstallation CD: http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dellcare/en/backupcd_form?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&redirect=1 Written in response to: XP Corporate edittion (Matt Jones: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 12:36 pm) Responses to this message: re: XP Corporate edittion (Matt Jones: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 9:57 am) All messages in this thread [show all] XP Corporate edittion (Matt Jones: Tue, Mar 31, 2009, 12:36 pm) re: XP Corporate edittion (mikey: Tue, Mar 31, 2009, 1:14 pm) re: XP Corporate edittion (Ms. Eagle: Tue, Mar 31, 2009, 1:26 pm) re: XP Corporate edittion (Steve: Tue, Mar 31, 2009, 3:26 pm) re: XP Corporate edittion (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Mar 31, 2009, 9:01 pm) re: XP Corporate edittion (Matt Jones: Wed, Apr 1, 2009, 9:57 am) re: XP Corporate edittion (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Wed, Apr 1, 2009, 5:52 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