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Scratched XP Home Installation Disc

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NissanGurl

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***If this is not allowed someone please let me know and I will immediately delete this post.

I am building a computer for my stepdad. I have a valid XP Home Retail edition key, but when I try installing from my copy of the disc it fails to find a file ('asm' or 'asms' i think) and thus cannot install.

Is there a way I can maybe validate my cd-key with Microsoft in order to download either the damaged/missing files or possibly an iso image of the XP Home Retail installation disc? If you guys have any other suggestions, they would be much appreciated.

Again, I have a valid key but no way to use it. Just looking for some help.
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
You can get a new disc from Microsoft.
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I was looking on their site for this, but was unlucky. I'm going to try the fix the other guy posted, but if not I will look a little more to see where this is. Thanks.
 
Originally posted by: NissanGurl
Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
check this out.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q311755
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Thanks! Gonna try it out. I'd been looking around microsoft for a cd download. Really appreciate your help.
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🙁 I was following the Hard Disk NTFS instructions, but "The system cannot execute the specified program" for regedit.exe.

I guess I'll go looking for a way to get a replacement cd on the microsoft site. It was definitely worth a try.
 
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