Thread: Lesson learned: don't tell the truth!

Originally Posted by chee16

i appreciate all the posts and the clarifications on what the moderator had to do. i can definitely appreciate the situation that he/she was in, i guess i was just really put off by being left hanging with a problem i couldn't fix.

so is there any way to buy a key code for XP to validate a copy? i can't find a place to buy XP pro anymore as everything seems to be vista, so could i just find a copy and get a valid key? it would make sense for them to do this but i know that they are much more likely to promote Vista then let people keep going on with XP.

i think i got myself fixed up though. i did a reinstall of windows without formatting. so i can now access the files i need still but i have a working copy of windows. the only problem is that my receipt printer won't work now.

this pirate has some figuring to do

You can prolly buy one, but it would likely cost you the same price as a cd.

I think your best option would just be to burn your copy of xp (make sure its a bootable image and test to make sure the cd boots right), copy all the files you need off your hard disk and do a full reinstall. After a problem like you've had windows really can't be trusted to work right, it will continually have odd, annoying problems like you're experiencing now.

Oh, make sure you make a list of all your hardware. I reinstalled recently with a newer version of xp and it didn't recognize some of my computers hardware that it had previously recognized.

You can get a copy from fry ' s electronics at frys . com for 200 bucks. Home or Pro with sp2.