Xp serial

[KoolDrew]

A friend of mine has a sis that wants to format her PC. Hers is a prebult machine and he has a old Compaq OEM version of XP. Can he simply use that XP disc and use the product key on the side of his sisters PC to reformat her PC.

 

[pcman83]

usually yes.. I would reccomend ghosting the drive off to another hard drive just in case it does not take the key.

 

[PC Freak]

Just to be sure download a program called Magic Jellybean. It will give you any pc's Product Key for Win and Office

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: PC_Freak
Just to be sure download a program called Magic Jellybean. It will give you any pc's Product Key for Win and Office

is this a real program?

 

[DaFinn]

A program called Everest will tell you the serial used. And yes, this is a real program

 

[alm4rr]

no unathorized transmissions of said key?

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Is the CD a windows CD or is it a Compaq labeled CD? If it is a compaq restore cd then it probably will not work. Most restore CD's use the BIOS revision as a way of authenticating if it can install on that PC.

 

[Sam334]

There's a program called, I believe, "RockXP2" that takes the activation file (wpa, I think) so you can copy it to a floppy and use it to reinstall. Theoretically, it makes sense, but I'm not sure what will happen if your hardware is different. The app also tells you the key and whatnot.

 

[forumJunkie]

Originally posted by: DaFinn
A program called Everest will tell you the serial used. And yes, this is a real program

Everest has definitely gotten me out of a couple of tight spots, good suggestion

I used this program called ViewXPKey you can find it on google