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by tankgang

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Ok I have a dell c610. It came with windows 2000 pro, but it has a xp pro coa on the case. I bought a dell oem disk to reinstall, but it does not have a coa and I can't get past not putting a coa in. Should I now find a xp disk or what?

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by jswentworth

Did you buy the laptop from Dell as a new laptop? If you did then it should have been pre-installed with XP and Dell should send you an XP CD to match the COA you have. If you got it second hand then you're violating the MSFT license by having no COA for Win2k, so you should get a Dell WinXP reinstall CD.

by tankgang

I bought it used, but I formatted the hard drive, so now it looks like an xp install.

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