If it hasn't been made clear, I believe that the Windows XP installation process and all the bloody different CDs involved to be one of the BIGGEST cluster F*CKS in the history of computing. Rather than playing all these games with different CD's, MICROSOFT, just do it with the FRIGGING DAMN KEY!. One CD fits all. Enter the license key and that determines the version run. I have spent a few days trying to fix a damn machine where XP screwed the pooch and wouldn't boot any more. Of course, the machine owner doesn't have the CD, but the official Microsoft COA for XP Home OEM is stuck right to the case. This should be a walk in the bloody park! Instead, I have to hunt down various ISO's and then edit the setupp.ini file so that I can then burn a CD. I do this. And no matter what I do, no matter what I put in the setupp.ini file, the infernal thing insists it is an XP HOME **UPGRADE** disk and refuses to accept the XP HOME OEM key I have. So screw it, I take my official XP Pro CD, copy it over to the HDD, edit the setupp.ini, burn the CD, boot the thing and wa-la it wants a key for XP pro, not home, despite the setupp.ini file and despite creating the CD with what is supposed to be the XP Home OEM volume lable. So what the hell, I am not using my XP pro key anymore, so I try to use it. INVALID FRIGGING KEY!!!! G-D#$@ it to hell! This is a CD straight from Microsoft. I have used it before. The product key is completely valid yet this stupid effing install says it is not. Oh MY GOD!!! Why does Microsoft have to make life so hard for those of us who need to do completely legitimate things? Quit effing us over, Microsoft. If I wanted to steal your software, it is easy enough to do. The only people you are making life tough for are the users who are trying to be legit!!! Go burn in the nether world you stupid jerks!!!
You fail to note - I did edit the setupp.ini file, several times over as I tried different options. For some stupid reason, the installation was reading something from the HD and ignoring what the setupp.ini file contained. Giving up on a repair install, I toasted the windows directory and the system files in the root and reinstalled that way. I was then able to get it to install the XP Home OEM image that kept insisting it was something else. An IPad? Heck no. i'll be kicking and screaming when they take my CLI away from me.
Hi, I am searching for a HP Pavilion ze2000 XP SP2 Home Recovery CD. Over the Years ill lost it... hprecoverycd.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=ZE2000-RECOVERY-BUNDLE found it for 149.99 bucks Any ideas where i can download it? Thanks a lot.
Why recovery cd that is outdated sp2 rather than sp3 just download windows xp pro sp3 and make yourself an OEM:SLP cd or use VLK and OEMBIOS changer.. all the information you need is in the stickies section.
The S/N you provided is invalid BTW, do you think MS will post their product key on their website? If so, they won't get profit.....
Bumping the thread... Any luck for me in finding Windows XP Pro SP3 OEM/HP? Will greatly appreciate it if somebody could help me. TIA!
I thought i had Dell? *looking through my disks lol* -ed- SP3 SP2 Spanish disk and an SP3 English Disk for Dell, no MUI, sorry
I don't know if this is somehow related to the installer but I can't join to my domain server. I've read on the internet about this problem, I tried several times joining the computer to the domain but it always gives me an error of "The specified domain does not exist or cannot be contacted". Any advise about this? TIA! -- @EFA11 Hi! I know this is too much for asking, Do you have HP OEM Windows XP Pro SP2 also? Thanks!
Configure the DNS on the machine you want to join to the domain and ping the FQDN if it's ok then problem is solved.