xp home upgrade toruble

One of our faculty, a power user, intended to upgrade his
oem Dell XP home
system to XP pro. He attempted to do this using Volume
License media from
TRC.

The installation went poorly, partly because the installer
was unable to
find files in the i386 folder, even though it is there and
readable.
Post-install the machine reports XP Pro, and things like EFS
work.

But at every boot a message appears that XP is not legal.
When he traced
this down on the MS web site he was asked to enter the MVLS
Product Key
that he had used; the site claimed that the key had been
cancelled! It is
the same key we have used in the past, which ends with the
digits -3vhgy.

Do we have a new key?

Thanks,


TC

-- 

Ted Crum
tedcrumsocrates.berkeley.edu

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Hi Ted,

Ted Crum wrote:

> One of our faculty, a power user, intended to upgrade
his oem Dell XP home
> system to XP pro. He attempted to do this using Volume
License media from
> TRC.

The information at the Microsoft Volume Licensing site shows
the same 
key as always, but you may want to check this thread for
some other 
possible issues:

   http://forums.microsoft.com/Genuine/ShowForum.aspx
?ForumID=442

--Karl

Karl Grose
IST

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> The installation went poorly, partly because the
installer was unable to
> find files in the i386 folder, even though it is there
and readable.
> Post-install the machine reports XP Pro, and things
like EFS work.
> 
> But at every boot a message appears that XP is not
legal. When he traced
> this down on the MS web site he was asked to enter the
MVLS Product Key
> that he had used; the site claimed that the key had
been cancelled! It is
> the same key we have used in the past, which ends with
the digits -3vhgy.
> 
> Do we have a new key?

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