- Joined
- Oct 30, 2004
- Location
- Madison, WI
This story starts with my sister getting her own computer. She wanted to put XP on it, so I got an oem version of windows from newegg to save some money. We got it all installed an everything was fine, right? Well, a little while later, that computer died and we decided to build her a brand new one. In the mean time, the oem XP cd broke . When I tried to install with my retail disc and her serial number and found out that retail discs don't work with oem serial numbers! I grudgingly let her use my serial number to activate. Everything worked fine up untill a couple of weeks ago. My computer was having some troubles and I had to reinstall windows. When I did it said that my installation had been installed too many times and that I would have to call microsoft or enter a new sn. I didn't want to call them, even though they could probably get it working, because it is actually on 2 computers and I just don't want to go there.
I'm looking for any way to get this installation to work. I would like to be able to get a new oem cd since we have a sn we can use and would be perfectly fine, but is there any way, also to find something to get me going right now? I have 23 days left on the instalation before the activation period is up. If worst comes to worst, I can hopefully just get a new disc and I may have to reinstal on one of the computers. Any help would be apprieciated.
I'm looking for any way to get this installation to work. I would like to be able to get a new oem cd since we have a sn we can use and would be perfectly fine, but is there any way, also to find something to get me going right now? I have 23 days left on the instalation before the activation period is up. If worst comes to worst, I can hopefully just get a new disc and I may have to reinstal on one of the computers. Any help would be apprieciated.
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