Lost my product id #

[Dan]

my girlfriend decided to clean things up around here, in
the proccess she placed the product id number i'd taped to
my monitor, in a 'safe place' for me ... now if she could
only remember where that place is! (sigh)
in the meantime... ive recently discovered my pc was
entertaining a worm known as kwbot. I reformatted my hard
drievs... and as i was installing windows xp i noticed the
product id # was not where i left it ... now im back on 98
and am fiending to use my xp.... anybody know how i can
get the product id # for this disk? or is it just junk to
be added to the ever growing pile of AOL disks?

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

As you've reformatted and lost your key (I don't suppose you kept the =
original packaging either?), for a retail version of WinXP you will need =
to contact Microsoft for a replacement at 1-800-426-9400.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x - =
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone -
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Dan" > wrote in message =
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> my girlfriend decided to clean things up around here, in=20
> the proccess she placed the product id number i'd taped to=20
> my monitor, in a 'safe place' for me ... now if she could=20
> only remember where that place is! (sigh)=20
> in the meantime... ive recently discovered my pc was=20
> entertaining a worm known as kwbot. I reformatted my hard=20
> drievs... and as i was installing windows xp i noticed the=20
> product id # was not where i left it ... now im back on 98=20
> and am fiending to use my xp.... anybody know how i can=20
> get the product id # for this disk? or is it just junk to=20
> be added to the ever growing pile of AOL disks?

[Amethyst]

Rick "Nutcase" Rogers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As you've reformatted and lost your key (I don't suppose you kept the
> original packaging either?), for a retail version of WinXP you will need
> to contact Microsoft for a replacement at 1-800-426-9400.
>
>
> "Dan" > wrote in message
> ...
>> my girlfriend decided to clean things up around here, in
>> the proccess she placed the product id number i'd taped to
>> my monitor, in a 'safe place' for me ... now if she could
>> only remember where that place is! (sigh)
>> in the meantime... ive recently discovered my pc was
>> entertaining a worm known as kwbot. I reformatted my hard
>> drievs... and as i was installing windows xp i noticed the
>> product id # was not where i left it ... now im back on 98
>> and am fiending to use my xp.... anybody know how i can
>> get the product id # for this disk? or is it just junk to
>> be added to the ever growing pile of AOL disks?

Unfortunately, they can't help you with a replacement girlfriend...

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[Alex Nichol]

Dan wrote:

>my girlfriend decided to clean things up around here, in
>the proccess she placed the product id number i'd taped to
>my monitor, in a 'safe place' for me ... now if she could
>only remember where that place is! (sigh)
> in the meantime... ive recently discovered my pc was
>entertaining a worm known as kwbot. I reformatted my hard
>drievs... and as i was installing windows xp

As you have formatted the system, there is no way of recovering the Key.
It is not on the CD - what happens is that the setup program checks the
key and says 'this is valid for me'. You had better get on another
hunt for that Safe Place.


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems)
Bournemouth, U.K.