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Posted on 12-02-04 12:39 AM Link | Quote
Gods, I'm full of stupid questions this month

Anyway, my PC needs a reinstall of XP pretty bad. But I've lost my CD. I've still got the product code and everything just not the actual disk. Can I borrow someone else's XP Home disk and use my product code or do I have to use my original CD?
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Posted on 12-02-04 12:45 AM Link | Quote
Everyone has the same contents on their cd, it's just the cdkey or product number that is different. So yeah. You can.
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Posted on 12-02-04 12:48 AM Link | Quote
I honestly wouldn't see why Microsoft make each CD unisque, that would cost too much money to do.

So yeah, you can probably do that.
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Posted on 12-02-04 12:50 AM Link | Quote
Thank you!
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Posted on 12-02-04 04:56 AM Link | Quote
Microsoft makes unique keys for each of the service packs (and editions as well). That info would be helpful.
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Posted on 12-03-04 12:50 AM Link | Quote
Making a key unique to each CD wouldn't cost anything. They'd just have to declare a variable in the source code that's guaranteed to not show up ANYWHERE else (use a big long string ), and find out where that ends up being placed in the file, then program their CD-writing software to change the value of that variable to a unique ID each time it presses a disc.

Sounds complicated, but it's really not. But no, there isn't much point.
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