Windows XP Repair

creativecreative
edited April 2009 in Science & Tech
I done a WIN XP repair 2 days back . however the Product key with my Dell PC was not accepting as a valid one . I took the product key of the CD and done an repair . once the repair finsh i can see a windows xp welcome screen and it was shows like 'please wait' . this screen was appreas quite a long time i restart my system and my xp logon screen came . I am try to login my xp account i cna see an error "You must first activate this copy of Windows with Microsoft before you can log in" . Can any of you pelase help me here ?

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  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    creative wrote:
    I done a WIN XP repair 2 days back . however the Product key with my Dell PC was not accepting as a valid one . I took the product key of the CD and done an repair . once the repair finsh i can see a windows xp welcome screen and it was shows like 'please wait' . this screen was appreas quite a long time i restart my system and my xp logon screen came . I am try to login my xp account i cna see an error "You must first activate this copy of Windows with Microsoft before you can log in" . Can any of you pelase help me here ?

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307890

    This should help, but are you saying you can not log in at all?
  • creativecreative
    edited April 2009
    yes . i cannot do log to xp at all . i didnt repair using automatic recovery console . i did and 'enter key ' there and go to the next screen and there i can see 2 option .
    install
    repair

    i did the repair from here. i think i done a terrible mistake here ... can you let me know what can i do here?
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    So I understand, did you do the repair install using a key other than the original OEM key that came with the PC?
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited April 2009
    The windows cd that you used to do the repair install. Is it the one that came with your Dell? Because if it's not you can't use your Dell product CD with it, it'll get rejected.

    Bah Cliff beat me to it.

    You can try and activate it by phone and generate a new product key and then try and use your cd key, that may work. Otherwise you'll have to talk to a rep and hope to explain away the pain.
  • creativecreative
    edited April 2009
    yes Cliff anf Kryyst .. is there any other solution ? my problem is that i cannot log in my xp account at all .

    I use the CD Key becuase my Dell PC Key was not accepting while i do the repair

    I didnt have a DELL CD .. my PC was already loaded xp sp2 vesion .
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    creative wrote:
    yes Cliff anf Kryyst .. is there any other solution ? my problem is that i cannot log in my xp account at all .

    I use the CD Key becuase my Dell PC Key was not accepting while i do the repair

    I didnt have a DELL CD .. my PC was already loaded xp sp2 vesion .

    You might want to at least start by booting into safe mode, and back up your important files.

    You probably can't activate it online over safe mode, but if you have a valid OEM key, you should be able to call Microsoft, explain, and activate over the phone.
  • creativecreative
    edited April 2009
    thanks for the reply . i'll call microsoft ...
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