Creating XP home CD for Asus

Badly infected Asus netbook, product key sticker unreadable, I was able to get the key using magic jelly bean key finder. Tried to reinstall from an XP home CD that has worked before on various machines, but Im getting an unauthorised product key message. I have run the OEMBios tool and have identified the correct files but I'm a little confused as to the rest of the procudure. Do I just copy the compressed 4 files to the i386 folder of the XP folder before compiling to an iso and burning? Do I enter the product key into the general setting at this stage? Is this enough to allow pre-activation? I am using nlite.

 

Thanks, I might try that. Its very frustrating that these vendors make it so difficult to do reinstalls of legally owned licenses. I'm only trying to reinstall the OS that came with the machine and I always prefer to keep it legal especially when it is for my customer not myself, but if push comes to shove..

 

I know, but my client has a license for home, so she doesn't own a license for pro so she would have software installed illegally, if she contacted Asus or Microsoft, it might bounce back at me (although I doubt they would give a toot) and they would say she had a pirate copy. The machine is also a bit crippled wrt hardware - 15GB HDD, and maybe I'm wrong, but I believe home uses less resources than pro. So I was hoping that I was on the right track with what I said.