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Working on a Toshiba Satellite A25 S207 that originally had Win98 on it and was some how upgraded to XP.

Friend doesn't have the XP disk, Microsoft no longer sells...buy it on-line?

What's a fellow to do for older computers that won't take Vista or Win 7. I'm sure I'll run into this again.

This is what you grab one of those 11 in 1 XP disks for.

Just get an Sealed OEM XP disk with an COA online at eBay

format from install

Hey Krom, where can I find the 11 in XP disk. Always worried about the source. So many scammers out there now.

I just looked at the specs to that laptop from toshiba's site the A25-s207 had windows Xp Home Edition from the factory -- so why do you say it had windows 98......

thewolfe wrote:Working on a Toshiba Satellite A25 S207 that originally had Win98 on it and was some how upgraded to XP.

Just use a OEM Windows Home Edition (even from a Dell) and grab the COA from the bottom of the toshiba laptop and change it after install with MagicJellybean Keychanger

You might want to check out Ubuntu. It's free, virus proof, fast, and pretty.

Sorry that I don't have any info on XP.

When I started the OS disk it said Starting Window 98.

what is the Certificate of Authenticity on the bottom of the laptop tell you

Well there it is...XP. Guess you can't believe everything you see on the screen.

Still interested in the 11 and 1 XP.

And thanks for the help, again.

just an fyi in case anyone else thinks WIN98 on a WINXP install.... it's a quirk in the loader for people who installed \"Nortons GoBack\"

I'm prettysure in these situations, the common practice is to just download a torrent of XP and install it.

The laptop clearly had it installed on it already, it's merely a \"tool\" you are using to fix the computer - to restore it to it's original state when you got it (minus the problems you were hired to fix). If you want, at the end you can use another tool to revert it to the original CD Key (handily printed on the bottom of the laptop, lucky you).

Every IT man needs a bag full of tools.

roid wrote:I'm prettysure in these situations, the common practice is to just download a torrent of XP and install it.

The laptop clearly had it installed on it already, it's merely a "tool" you are using to fix the computer - to restore it to it's original state when you got it (minus the problems you were hired to fix). If you want, at the end you can use another tool to revert it to the original CD Key (handily printed on the bottom of the laptop, lucky you).

Every IT man needs a bag full of tools.

In case you wonder ANY Torrent of any software may and quite possibly will be infected with trojans/malware/virii.

roid wrote:The laptop clearly had it installed on it already, it's merely a "tool" you are using to fix the computer - to restore it to it's original state when you got it (minus the problems you were hired to fix). If you want, at the end you can use another tool to revert it to the original CD Key (handily printed on the bottom of the laptop, lucky you).

Every IT man needs a bag full of tools.

Nice regurgitation skimmer

AlphaDoG wrote:In case you wonder ANY Torrent of any software may and quite possibly will be infected with trojans/malware/virii.

I have never found a virus in a torrent.
You must suck at choosing torrents.


*roid momentarily gets lost in through, pondering if kids should get taught this in school... And wanders outof the house and down the street*

Torrents are quite capable of having viruses, but if they do it's not likely that they will stay up for long. Warnings get out fairly fast from what I'm told.

Never had issues with Popular torrents... stay away from the \"Black Edition\" and actually read the Comments.....AD

roid wrote:

AlphaDoG wrote:In case you wonder ANY Torrent of any software may and quite possibly will be infected with trojans/malware/virii.

I have never found a virus in a torrent.
You must suck at choosing torrents.


*roid momentarily gets lost in through, pondering if kids should get taught this in school... And wanders outof the house and down the street*

I'm glad you have never found a virus in a torrent roid. Does that make it right to attack me?

I never said I have been infected via a torrent, I just stated the obvious that they may in fact be infected.

Personally I avoid torrents all together.

You must really suck at reading my posts!

Sorry AlphaDog.
I'll translate what i said:

If you are getting viruses from torrents, then you should improve your torrent choosing skills. Noob

roid wrote:Sorry AlphaDog......................... Noob

This coming from the N0ob-SemiPro!


Alpha - Read the comments : 0 Comments = Bait!

Self professed noob asking for help. I just took my XP partition and created a .tib file from Acronis 2010. I then took the .tib file and created a VM of my install just in case I forgot anything for my Win7 install. Now the damn thing won't activate over the internet and I can't even get past the nag screen so getting into the OS is impossible. Anyway to get this VM activated without dicking around with Microsuck?

flip wrote:Self professed noob asking for help. I just took my XP partition and created a .tib file from Acronis 2010. I then took the .tib file and created a VM of my install just in case I forgot anything for my Win7 install. Now the damn thing won't activate over the internet and I can't even get past the nag screen so getting into the OS is impossible. Anyway to get this VM activated without dicking around with Microsuck?

Call the number, its an automated system, takes about 5 minutes and it is easy enough to use.

We need more noob advice! ↴
errr... install virtual box? In linux?

Tried both options already Krom. I put in the numbers like they said, go through the whole process, and it's unable to activate. How the heck do you talk to a person now?

EDIT: I guess I should add that it's a Dell oem disk that is installed (WinXP_SP2 upgraded to SP3) so normally there is no activation process. Heh no way to spoof a Dell bios to a VM is there? I doubt it