[ltp] XP Key doesn't work!

[André Wyrwa]

The preload install of IBM includes a i386 folder, which consists of
nothing else than all the install files for the preloaded XP. So what
you can do (ugly, but should work):

Recover your original installation from the preload CDs.
Burn the i386 folder to a CD.
Install in VMWare from that CD.

I reinstalled the preloaded XP myself that way after changing
harddrives.

André.


On Mi, 2004-09-22 at 09:27 +0200, Nick Bower wrote:
> Hi - when receiving my laptop, the first thing I did was blow away my
> windows xp partition, expecting to use the XP license for VMWare
> instead.
> 
> The trouble is that I tried installing XP Pro within VMWare and it won't
> accept the Windows XP product license key that came with the laptop - I
> can only presume this is the volume/retail licensing split, which I
> hadn't predicted.
> 
> Has anyone been able to obtain a compatible XP CD without all the IBM
> junk or at least derive an XP .iso compatible with my key from the IBM
> service partition (I can mount it but it's huge)?
> 
> nick
> 
>