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Perhaps somebody will remember this better than me.... What I did was call
the number that comes up during installation... Then, following directions
given to me by a VeryNice lady from Microsoft, her computer generated a VERY
long *secret* number which I tried (using voice recognition) to relay to a
(presumably) Microsoft computer. After MANY tries (computers are SO patient
<grinding my teeth>) I was given a *new* key that worked.
Actually, it sounds worsed than it was. It only took an hour or so. And the
twitch in my left eye is almost all gone now....
Like I said... Probably somebody here knows a better way.
Good luck.
>From: JJ <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: [PCBUILD] Product Key Not Product Key - What to do
>Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 01:05:55 -0400
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>System - eMachine T1100
>XP Home
>
>Working on for acquaintance. Once machine booted clicking on any user
>account resulted in machine rebooting. Had some other issues as well. No
>restore CDs came with machine. Decided to just reformat and resinstall XP
>Home from a CD I had using the KEY on the sticker on back of machine. When
>I put in the "product key" as listed on the machine I get an "Invalid Key"
>response. Doing some net searching I found a reference to the fact that
>eMachines evidently put the activation key on the sticker not the product
>key. Oops. Well, the c:\ has been formatted so trying to retrieve what the
>actual key was is a moot point on c:\. Not real familiar with eMachines but
>there is a second partition on the drive that's FAT32 and appears to have
>something on it. Is this a restore function? If so how do you access\run
>the restore?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Jayne Johnston
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