Hi Folks,
I have a bit of a dilemma that I am hoping someone can help me with.
About 18 months ago we bought a Toshiba laptop from Wal-Mart with the XP Home pre-installed. Of course it didnt come with an XP Home cd, just the key code on the bottom.
Evidently a virus got in the system awhile back and caused some physical damage to the hard drive. I had no XP cd so my brother lent me his XP Pro that he got from the college he attends and I reformatted and installed it.
The problem is it would only be about a week before it crashed again due to the HD problem, bad blocks,etc. So I would reformat and install again, doing this several times until the replacement HD came in and I changed it out.
After the HD replacement it wont let me validate it again saying its been done too many times and I need to call M$ and get a new key code.
What to do? How do I explain this to whoever I get on the other end at M$?
Thanks for the help! John
