I've done that successfully many times, so I'd try another disk. Are
you sure about Home/Pro?
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:21 PM, cubbettee cubbettee
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> Hi,
>
> I have a question about a Dell machine running XP.
> Machine is about 7 years old and the owner does not have his disk any longer
> I tried to put my xp disk into the machine, and it did start to install everything, however when I put in the xp numbers on the side of his machine, it said those numbers are invalid. I thought that you could use any xp disk as long as you use the same numbers without changing any hardware? Do i need to use an older disk, one made during the years of his computer. I know I have disks with sp 2 and some with sp3, on them.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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