Hi, im a newbie to all this but have done some reading on sorting out win validation. The problem i have is i bought a toshiba satellite pro a30 with a xp pro coa on the bottom thinking that i install win xp pro and enter the coa an it should work which is where i went wrong as win wont validate. On my pacard i had to press one of the f keys and it set up win home but this laptop is a complete shell. Is there a way to get this laptop back to the factory settings with royalty oem so that it can be validated by win. any help would be much appreciated and thanks for reading fierychris
Isn't your black humor a little inappropriate? The question was asked 14 and a half years ago and now you start sharing suggestions. Besides, you can see that this is the only post ever. Maybe he's been dead a long time.