And to answer the obvious question, no I'm not trying to pirate it.
I have a netbook which came with windows xp installed. I promptly change the hard drive to a new one and discover samsung don't bother to supply an installation disk. I've been struggling with this for a while, I'm informed that my key is incorrect and that I can't use windows anymore until I activate it. I'm pretty sick of reinstalling XP every 40 days.
So, what am I to do? I have about 80% of the licence key for the netbook, the rest has rubbed off the sticker. I also have the key which the laptop came with, being different, and presumably a generic oem one. It's the latter that I've been using, but while it lets me install it doesn't let me activate.
How do I resolve this? If it's as simple as sourcing an oem disk I can probably do so, but there must be an easier way.
Help would be appreciated
I have a netbook which came with windows xp installed. I promptly change the hard drive to a new one and discover samsung don't bother to supply an installation disk. I've been struggling with this for a while, I'm informed that my key is incorrect and that I can't use windows anymore until I activate it. I'm pretty sick of reinstalling XP every 40 days.
So, what am I to do? I have about 80% of the licence key for the netbook, the rest has rubbed off the sticker. I also have the key which the laptop came with, being different, and presumably a generic oem one. It's the latter that I've been using, but while it lets me install it doesn't let me activate.
How do I resolve this? If it's as simple as sourcing an oem disk I can probably do so, but there must be an easier way.
Help would be appreciated