Dragnskull
Retired Staff
ok, ive never had to get down and dirty with installs, ive just used reinstall disks from time to time on older machines, never with custom built and never with such newer hardware, nor have i ever completely built a computer and had to go from scratch software wise.
anyways, my friend built his new computer, and used an old XP disk he bought for his moms computer [turned out it was a reinstall disk, so we had to use a windows trial disk for 98 or something and then use his moms upgrade disk if im not mistaken]
long story short, i need a method of getting past the "Activate windows online" or whatever it is once you install the OS. yes i know this isnt discussible on the forums, so pm's or IM's would be great)
my goal is to hopefully get his OS to where mine is, running [obviously] without an experation date before he has to validate/activate his windows, and preferably able to be viewed by microsoft.com as a genuine copy of xp and allow him to online update
secondly, my own problem
im wanting to completely reinstall windows here soon [computer is starting to bog down some...] and i want to make sure i dont reformat and get screwed. i dont know if i have all myd isks so if someone could please give me a list of -every- driver i would nead [generic, Video card, Chipset, Nic] to make sure i know everything i need to have, also if i could give what i have and someone could assist me in located all the drivers i need so i can make a new burned CD with all of them, that would be great
anyways, my friend built his new computer, and used an old XP disk he bought for his moms computer [turned out it was a reinstall disk, so we had to use a windows trial disk for 98 or something and then use his moms upgrade disk if im not mistaken]
long story short, i need a method of getting past the "Activate windows online" or whatever it is once you install the OS. yes i know this isnt discussible on the forums, so pm's or IM's would be great)
my goal is to hopefully get his OS to where mine is, running [obviously] without an experation date before he has to validate/activate his windows, and preferably able to be viewed by microsoft.com as a genuine copy of xp and allow him to online update
secondly, my own problem
im wanting to completely reinstall windows here soon [computer is starting to bog down some...] and i want to make sure i dont reformat and get screwed. i dont know if i have all myd isks so if someone could please give me a list of -every- driver i would nead [generic, Video card, Chipset, Nic] to make sure i know everything i need to have, also if i could give what i have and someone could assist me in located all the drivers i need so i can make a new burned CD with all of them, that would be great
