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Help please. Reinstalling XP
    #8837280 - 08/27/08 05:41 PM (15 years, 8 months ago)

I need a copy of XP Home without the service packs.  i think...

I received the automatic update and installed xp sp3 and my cpu never rebooted.  It said something like 'unable to load, can't find dlls'.  Thanks Microsoft.

It might not be MS fault, Ive been having problems with the hardrive for a few months, including a 'disc error check' forced from the boot screen, so the HD was probably on its way out. 

So... I inserted the XP PRO disc i had.  (I now realize it was the home edition i was running, but at the time i did not.)  I had 3 or 4 MS CD sleeves with product keys (from Word, Excel, etc), and I purchased all the products from my college bookstore, so they are all legit.  Well I get to the install point where it asks for the product key, and it turns out that none of the  sleeves i still have match the disk. 
At this point i look on the back of the pc, and see the product key (and the XP HOME label).  The XP Home key doesn't match the XP Pro, so i had to shut everything down. 

So now when i boot it tells me there is a critical error with the primary disk, and i need to back everything up asap.
I downloaded a couple of versions of XP Home, mounted them to a disk and tried them in the desktop, but they are all sp1 or sp2 and in spanish (or both, and the key code doesnt match). 

The primary disk has two partitions, the OS being on the first, and my recent downloads on the second. My music library is on the secondary disc, and im pretty sure this disc is completely unaffected.  I would prefer to get the data off the second partition on the primary disc, that is why (i think) i am trying to reinstall the os on the shitty partion.
The desktop is a Sony Vaio 2ghz P4 (so maybe i need a viao XP home disc?; ive tried the 5 sony discs, they dont seem to contain the OS).  It has also a 1ghz or ram, and a year old dual layer dvd burner

Frankly im at a lost for what to do.  Ive got a real XP PRO disk, just no key code, ive got my original key code, but no disc. 

someone help

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Re: Help please. Reinstalling XP [Re: Dexter_Morgan]
    #8837345 - 08/27/08 05:52 PM (15 years, 8 months ago)

If it were me I'd simply buy another hard drive install to that with whatever pirated version of windows you want, and then try and recover the data after you get the system running.

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Re: Help please. Reinstalling XP [Re: Dexter_Morgan]
    #8837354 - 08/27/08 05:54 PM (15 years, 8 months ago)

I had a white hat xp pro key code, I Pm to you.


I seem to be having a weird codec issue today myself.
Good luck.

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