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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote: But anyway you can use any CD to boot up and install. As Ennis said licensing is not an issue as you won the license. In case someone comes to check your license you can show him the oem product key and he will be satisfied.
I am giving away this laptop to someone - so I cannot use my personal product keys. I have to use the product key that came with the laptop. I don't understand why the key won't work with the regular MSDN media. Or why Fujitsu would give a non-bootable OS disk.
Anyway I am now booting via FreeDOS and FDISKing the drive so I can extract the files from the CD there and then run the installation. Bad thing is FreeDOS is Fat32 only, so I will have to do the NTFS conversion later on, unless Setup lets me do that. Never thought this process would be this big a hassle! 
Regards,
Nish
modified on Saturday, April 10, 2010 2:37 PM
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So why didn’t you restore the laptop to factory default settings then? Using the recovery partition?
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote: So why didn’t you restore the laptop to factory default settings then? Using the recovery partition?
Those are long gone now - this is an 8+ year old laptop 
Regards,
Nish
modified on Saturday, April 10, 2010 2:37 PM
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Ah! This is the laptop on which you spilled coffee/water (can’t remember which liquid). It survived pretty long.
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote: Ah! This is the laptop on which you spilled coffee/water (can’t remember which liquid). It survived pretty long.
Yeah, I did a 350 dollar keyboard replacement back then, and it has seen 2 hard disk changes too. The CPU/memory/LCD have withstood all these years of wear and tear.
Regards,
Nish
modified on Saturday, April 10, 2010 2:37 PM
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Yeah, I did a 350 dollar keyboard replacement back then, and it has seen 2 hard disk changes too. The CPU/memory/LCD have withstood all these years of wear and tear.
And you call that a "giveaway"? Just say you're getting rid of it, man. 
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: And you call that a "giveaway"? Just say you're getting rid of it, man.
Regards,
Nish
modified on Saturday, April 10, 2010 2:38 PM
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Wasn't there something called BartPE (or similar) that had something to do with this?
Never used it mind, and my only memory of it is something I read very briefly a few years ago... still, might be what you want.
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I suppose you could extract the boot sector from a working CD and burn a second CD with the Fujitsu ISO + the extracted boot sector. IIRC, WinIso allows this kind of playing with CD boot sectors.
Luca
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV
En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur.
(But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.)
-- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
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Luca Leonardo Scorcia wrote: I suppose you could extract the boot sector from a working CD and burn a second CD with the Fujitsu ISO + the extracted boot sector. IIRC, WinIso allows this kind of playing with CD boot sectors.
If my FreeDOS attempt fails, that's what I plan to try.
Sadly this CD does not even have the extracted i386 folder, so I will probably need to do that as well. (instead it has a compressed archive in a self extracting exe that won't self extract unless you pass command line arguments that are not documented!)
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: manually run the Setup from the non-bootable XP CD?
Perhaps you could boot into BartPE (which is quite nice... I have it myself) to boot into a read-only Windows that will allow you to run the installer from the CD (though, I think BartPE requires a valid copy of Windows to create the boot CD, so that may get you into trouble)? Might require 2 CD drives... not sure if you can swap out the BartPE disc while it is running.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote: The XP product key that comes with the laptop will only work with this CD
Weird. I too have an OEM copy of XP and I wanted the SP3 version of XP (slipstreaming wouldn't work pre-SP1, so I needed an original XP SP3 install). I was able to download it off of a torrent. I compared it to one of the file hashes on MSDN and it matched, so I assumed it was fine (which it was). But that does bring up the point that MSDN has several versions of XP available, and you may just have to download and install the correct one.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote: an XP SP1 CD that is NOT bootable
Weird.
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I finally found an old XP SP1A bootable MSDN CD that accepts this product key, so maybe the Fujitsu CD was SP1A too even though it says SP1 on the CD label. Anyway, that still doesn't explain why my current XP CDs (which are probably SP2) will not accept the product key.
Anyway it's all good now. Installed XP, ran Windows Update, got prompted to install SP2. Did that, rebooted ran Update again and got prompted for SP3. That's in progress even as I type this post.
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Someone came up with a product key generator that worked often enough for SP1 that MS changed the algorithms. SP2 specifically broke a lot of product keys, because of this.
IIRC, they let you get a new one if SP2 work, maybe they still do.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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RichardM1 wrote: Someone came up with a product key generator that worked often enough for SP1 that MS changed the algorithms. SP2 specifically broke a lot of product keys, because of this.
Ah okay, that probably explains this then. I suppose I could have called them and they may have given me a working key for an SP2 CD.
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Ask a buddy for his disk or download a torrent.
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Will it boot any CD? Will another system boot from the CD?
It could be a problem with the drive. My current desktop won't boot my XP OEM install disc from my DVD RW so I had to attach a DVD R to perform the install.
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So, make it bootable[^].
"When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert
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3rd and 4th!
Mind you I am only about £5 up! But hey, it's a winning bet!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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How much would you have won if your pick was first?
Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for...
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modified on Saturday, April 10, 2010 11:54 AM
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If my horses came in I stood to pick up £625!
But they didn't, but never mind, I only bet on two races a year, the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the The Grand National, so I am not heartbroken.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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Dalek Dave wrote: pick up £625
Wow - that would have meant beer for everyone accessing the Lounge.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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Not at the rate some of us can drink beer... 
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace
C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
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My brother-in-law used to be a National Hunt jockey and out of loyalty I always used to put £25 on him when he rode in the Grand National. One year though, he couldn't get a decent ride, so I didn't.
His name is Hywel Davis, the year was 1985 and the donkey he was riding was called Last Suspect and had an SP of 66-1.
He won it of course and I've never forgiven myself. Or him... 
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I want to know if we can attach a file while asking a question in Q&A forum.
I couldn't find any such option. But I have seen couple of post saying see the attached image. this[^] and this[^].
Is it that I can't find the option or these guys have x-ray eyes. 
..Go Green..
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