Win XP Home - Looking for the file that activation puts on hard drive.

I installed Win XP Home on to computer but it did not format the
drive as requested and now there are 2 of everything. tried to delete
the extra directories and now XP wont start, I can access the drive
from a dos disk to find the file if I knew its name, I could then
format and reinstall XP OEM without having to re activating it twice
in the one night.

TIA
Keith

Each time you format your drive and reinstall XP, you are required
to activate it. You cannot save any file that will enable you to =
prevent
activation on a clean installation.

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Nicholas

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"yogi" wrote in message: =20
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| I installed Win XP Home on to computer but it did not format the
| drive as requested and now there are 2 of everything. tried to delete
| the extra directories and now XP wont start, I can access the drive
| from a dos disk to find the file if I knew its name, I could then
| format and reinstall XP OEM without having to re activating it twice
| in the one night.
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| TIA
| Keith

I can't remember the filename but actually there is, as long as there has
been no hardware changes.

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David A. Spicer
http://dhs.has.it


"Nicholas" wrote in message
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Each time you format your drive and reinstall XP, you are required
to activate it. You cannot save any file that will enable you to prevent
activation on a clean installation.

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Nicholas

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"yogi" wrote in message:
s.com...

| I installed Win XP Home on to computer but it did not format the
| drive as requested and now there are 2 of everything. tried to delete
| the extra directories and now XP wont start, I can access the drive
| from a dos disk to find the file if I knew its name, I could then
| format and reinstall XP OEM without having to re activating it twice
| in the one night.
|
| TIA
| Keith

Look in Windows\system32 for a file named WPA.DBL, also WPA.BAK.
If you make no changes to your system but just want to re-install XP, copy
these files to a floppy so you can copy them back into Windows\system32.

Jerry

"David A. Spicer" wrote in message
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I can't remember the filename but actually there is, as long as there has
been no hardware changes.

--
David A. Spicer
http://dhs.has.it


"Nicholas" wrote in message
...
Each time you format your drive and reinstall XP, you are required
to activate it. You cannot save any file that will enable you to prevent
activation on a clean installation.

--
Nicholas

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"yogi" wrote in message:
s.com...

| I installed Win XP Home on to computer but it did not format the
| drive as requested and now there are 2 of everything. tried to delete
| the extra directories and now XP wont start, I can access the drive
| from a dos disk to find the file if I knew its name, I could then
| format and reinstall XP OEM without having to re activating it twice
| in the one night.
|
| TIA
| Keith

"....this only works in limited circumstances. The contents of these =20
two files is matched to the specific Windows setup; therefore, contrary =
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what many journalists and members of the user community have written =20
in recent months, restoring these files will not restore your activation =
status =20
following a reformat and clean install."

Ref: http://www.aumha.org/a/wpa.htm

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Nicholas

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"JerryM" wrote in message: =20
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| Look in Windows\system32 for a file named WPA.DBL, also WPA.BAK.
| If you make no changes to your system but just want to re-install XP, =
copy
| these files to a floppy so you can copy them back into =
Windows\system32.
|=20
| Jerry
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| "David A. Spicer" wrote in message
| ...
| I can't remember the filename but actually there is, as long as =
there has
| been no hardware changes.
|
| --
| David A. Spicer
| http://dhs.has.it
|
|
| "Nicholas" wrote in message
| ...
| Each time you format your drive and reinstall XP, you are required
| to activate it. You cannot save any file that will enable you to =
prevent
| activation on a clean installation.
|
| --
| Nicholas
|
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| "yogi" wrote in message:
| s.com...
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| | I installed Win XP Home on to computer but it did not format the
| | drive as requested and now there are 2 of everything. tried to =
delete
| | the extra directories and now XP wont start, I can access the =
drive
| | from a dos disk to find the file if I knew its name, I could then
| | format and reinstall XP OEM without having to re activating it =
twice
| | in the one night.
| |
| | TIA
| | Keith
|
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