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9/12/03 at 5:31pm
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I want to completly reformat my HD on my Dell 700 Dimension. I have upgraded with XP from 98. I have ALL of my original disks.........cannot find my damn XP upgrade disk.
I bought it for $89 bucks, installed it and registered it so I am 100% legal. But now I cannot find the damned original XP. I did find my XP plus but obviously that does me no good.

Any way around this or do I hafeta fork over more money to poor ol "Bill" ????

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I was thinking of borrowing someonex xp and register it using my original cd numbers if that is possible......

TIA

Ray
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post #2 of 3
9/12/03 at 5:42pm

Re: Stupid...stupid.........

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Originally posted by Ray Lancon
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I was thinking of borrowing someonex xp and register it using my original cd numbers if that is possible......

TIA

Ray
I am pretty sure that is legal. So long as you are using your own license.
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post #3 of 3
9/12/03 at 7:55pm
Yeah, you can use anyone elses XP cd as long as it's the same version (i.e. "Pro" or "Home") and then enter your key (if you have that, still).

In fact, I'd COPY that CD, as it is the KEY and LICENSE you rightfully own, the disc doesn't matter.

At my work, I use the same CD to install on all the machines (I copied it to the network) and just used the various keys on each machine... no problems!

Ray, let me know your friend comes through with a similar CD,
-myrkat
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