I had my hard drive go out on one of our laptops so I had a friend install a new one for me. That laptop was running on Win XP Home. The guy that worked on it teaches computers in a local tech school and I felt confident in his abilities. Since this laptop is not used a lot, I got it out and started working on it a week ago (hard drive replaced in Jan 09). This fellow installed Win XP Professional. When I went to update windows, etc, I got a notice that this was not a legit copy of Win XP Professional. Here is my question: Can I just go back and use my original Restore DVD that came with my computer; even though the hard drive has been replace? Will my computer recognize that this is a new hard drive and not allow me to do this? I am not going to fool with this guy; since his answer was only to go to a link and get around this error. I don’t need the headache of dealing with a pirated copy of Windows. I don’t need anything as elaborate as Win XP Professional anyway.
Margaret
