- Joined
- Aug 2, 2003
been a few years since ive logged in here but ive ran into a problem thats boggling my mind.
ok so someone had a dead dell that wanted the harddrive transplanted into a new barebone without reinstalling windows. the desktop had 2 drives setup to dual boot.
so i move over the drives and usually a repair install will make the drives boot properly... not in this case. i ran into a mess...
the backup partition boots xp fine, i cant get the main partition to do anything.
i extracted the original key that was installed to reuse. i booted from the disk and did a repair install and got to where it asks for the key and doesnt work. i rebooted in safe mode and ran the setup.exe and still didnt accept the key.
at this point i use one of my disks and keys and neither work... at this point i have no idea whats going on...
i boot into the back partition, insert my cd, go to upgrade, enter key and it continues. i made a text file on the C drive with the key i just entered that worked and saved it. i rebooted into safe mode on the other partition and repeated the steps and the key was invalid again. its not accepting any keys inside or outside of windows... wtf is going on
ok so someone had a dead dell that wanted the harddrive transplanted into a new barebone without reinstalling windows. the desktop had 2 drives setup to dual boot.
so i move over the drives and usually a repair install will make the drives boot properly... not in this case. i ran into a mess...
the backup partition boots xp fine, i cant get the main partition to do anything.
i extracted the original key that was installed to reuse. i booted from the disk and did a repair install and got to where it asks for the key and doesnt work. i rebooted in safe mode and ran the setup.exe and still didnt accept the key.
at this point i use one of my disks and keys and neither work... at this point i have no idea whats going on...
i boot into the back partition, insert my cd, go to upgrade, enter key and it continues. i made a text file on the C drive with the key i just entered that worked and saved it. i rebooted into safe mode on the other partition and repeated the steps and the key was invalid again. its not accepting any keys inside or outside of windows... wtf is going on