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d-gen-t - 28 Jun 2007 18:06 GMT

My computer ran into some trouble recently and for some reason the hard drive
just formatted itself??

I was doing some really important coursework at the time so a friend gave me
a windows xp professional disc, which is non-genuine.

I do however have a genuine Windows XP Home Edition key.

I found a tool on the Microsoft Genuine site that changes the key to another
key, in this case I want to change the key I have now (the non genuine) to a
genuine key, on the underneath of my laptop.

However, it has Windows XP Pro on it, but the Key is for Home Edition.
Will the key be able to change it succesful?

Jordan

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Carey Frisch [MVP] - 28 Jun 2007 18:52 GMT

The only way to return to Windows XP Home Edition is
to reformat your hard drive and reinstall your genuine
version of Windows XP Home Edition.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

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> My computer ran into some trouble recently and for some reason the hard drive
> just formatted itself??
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> Jordan

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Ken Blake, MVP - 28 Jun 2007 20:15 GMT

> My computer ran into some trouble recently and for some reason the hard drive
> just formatted itself??

I can assure that it did *not* do that. Hard drives do not
just format themselves.

> I was doing some really important coursework at the time so a friend gave me
> a windows xp professional disc, which is non-genuine.
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> However, it has Windows XP Pro on it, but the Key is for Home Edition.
> Will the key be able to change it succesful?

No. And there is no way to downgrade from XP Professional to Home. You
need to install XP Home cleanly.

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Curt Christianson - 28 Jun 2007 21:12 GMT

| I can assure that it did *not* do that. Hard drives do not
| just format themselves.

Ken,

A really intuitive OS maybe? <bg>

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Phisherman - 28 Jun 2007 23:27 GMT

>My computer ran into some trouble recently and for some reason the hard drive
>just formatted itself??

Sounds like malware, trogen or virus.

>I was doing some really important coursework at the time so a friend gave me
>a windows xp professional disc, which is non-genuine.
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>However, it has Windows XP Pro on it, but the Key is for Home Edition.
>Will the key be able to change it succesful?

No. Pro and Home have different keys.

>Jordan

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Plato - 29 Jun 2007 00:54 GMT

=?Utf-8?B?ZC1nZW4tdA==?= wrote:

> My computer ran into some trouble recently and for some reason the hard drive
> just formatted itself??

Not possible unless you told it to do so.

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> My computer ran into some trouble recently and for some reason the hard drive
> just formatted itself??
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> Jordan

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