Format and Reinstall - XP Home - English on system/Swedish OCD

I purchased my Compaq Presario R3200E5 (AMD Athlon) last year in Sweden. At
the time the Windows XP Home edition was installed and it asked for Language
preference and I obviously chose English.

I have since then changed base to UK and recently I realised that I want to
format and reinstall the OS. I took out the CD provided by HP but
unfortunately it is Swedish Version.

I contacted the Live chat support of HP but they just told that they will
get back to me and its already two days and I have not heard from them.

Plz suggest.

For the time being I am thinking of finding a friend who might have an
English version of XP home so that I can use that to reinstall. I can provide
the same Keys which were provided when I bought the laptop. Any suggestion if
this approach is right or not?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.!!!

that will not work. The simple reason being what you have is an oem version
of the OS and your friend would provide you with a retail version of it.
Windows uses different key sets for these. If your friend has an oem version
you still cannot use it because the oem cds do not ask you for a cd key and
you would be using his key which would get installed when you use that cd.
The best way would be to call on the hp support number for your area and find
out if they can send you an english version cd or an alternate solution that
they can provide you with which is highly unlikely.

Best of luck
yogi

"monk" wrote:

I purchased my Compaq Presario R3200E5 (AMD Athlon) last year in Sweden. At
the time the Windows XP Home edition was installed and it asked for Language
preference and I obviously chose English.

I have since then changed base to UK and recently I realised that I want to
format and reinstall the OS. I took out the CD provided by HP but
unfortunately it is Swedish Version.

I contacted the Live chat support of HP but they just told that they will
get back to me and its already two days and I have not heard from them.

Plz suggest.

For the time being I am thinking of finding a friend who might have an
English version of XP home so that I can use that to reinstall. I can provide
the same Keys which were provided when I bought the laptop. Any suggestion if
this approach is right or not?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.!!!

thx!! This definitely saved me some time...else I would have gone for it
tonight....and screwed up everything anyway...

thx once again will follow up with HP support...lets see what happens...)

"yogi" wrote:

that will not work. The simple reason being what you have is an oem version
of the OS and your friend would provide you with a retail version of it.
Windows uses different key sets for these. If your friend has an oem version
you still cannot use it because the oem cds do not ask you for a cd key and
you would be using his key which would get installed when you use that cd.
The best way would be to call on the hp support number for your area and find
out if they can send you an english version cd or an alternate solution that
they can provide you with which is highly unlikely.

Best of luck
yogi

"monk" wrote:

I purchased my Compaq Presario R3200E5 (AMD Athlon) last year in Sweden. At
the time the Windows XP Home edition was installed and it asked for Language
preference and I obviously chose English.

I have since then changed base to UK and recently I realised that I want to
format and reinstall the OS. I took out the CD provided by HP but
unfortunately it is Swedish Version.

I contacted the Live chat support of HP but they just told that they will
get back to me and its already two days and I have not heard from them.

Plz suggest.

For the time being I am thinking of finding a friend who might have an
English version of XP home so that I can use that to reinstall. I can provide
the same Keys which were provided when I bought the laptop. Any suggestion if
this approach is right or not?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.!!!

monk wrote:
thx!! This definitely saved me some time...else I would have gone for it
tonight....and screwed up everything anyway...

thx once again will follow up with HP support...lets see what happens...)

"yogi" wrote:


that will not work. The simple reason being what you have is an oem version
of the OS and your friend would provide you with a retail version of it.
Windows uses different key sets for these. If your friend has an oem version
you still cannot use it because the oem cds do not ask you for a cd key and
you would be using his key which would get installed when you use that cd.
The best way would be to call on the hp support number for your area and find
out if they can send you an english version cd or an alternate solution that
they can provide you with which is highly unlikely.

Best of luck
yogi

"monk" wrote:


I purchased my Compaq Presario R3200E5 (AMD Athlon) last year in Sweden. At
the time the Windows XP Home edition was installed and it asked for Language
preference and I obviously chose English.

I have since then changed base to UK and recently I realised that I want to
format and reinstall the OS. I took out the CD provided by HP but
unfortunately it is Swedish Version.

I contacted the Live chat support of HP but they just told that they will
get back to me and its already two days and I have not heard from them.

Plz suggest.

For the time being I am thinking of finding a friend who might have an
English version of XP home so that I can use that to reinstall. I can provide
the same Keys which were provided when I bought the laptop. Any suggestion if
this approach is right or not?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.!!!
Think: professionalism.

Does one really expect seasoned Windows experts to interfere with
another proprietary product? Uh-huh - no-way baby.

The first port of call should always be the supplier then the brand
holder then ... ? a NG?

BTW - part of your purchase costs really is for vendor/OEM/brand holder
support