Windows XP Activation Blues (Bootcamp - Parallels)

Jack Flash · Sep 25, 2007, 09:54 AM

Apparently Parallels has rendered my Windows XP Home OEM COA useless. It required me to reactivate but I am not allowed to. What do I do?

gormond · Sep 25, 2007, 09:58 AM

Don't quote me on this, but I don't think you are meant to use a OEM version of windows to install on a virtual machine so i'm not sure if micro$oft would help you out if you called them.

DaveF · Sep 25, 2007, 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jack Flash

Apparently Parallels has rendered my Windows XP Home OEM COA useless. It required me to reactivate but I am not allowed to. What do I do?

Call the activation hotline, work through the automated system. You made a major hardware change but didn't change the motherboard. Enter the special activiation key the system gives you. And Bootcamp and Parallels both work.

I did this with no trouble at all.

Jack Flash · Sep 25, 2007, 04:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaveF

Call the activation hotline, work through the automated system. You made a major hardware change but didn't change the motherboard. Enter the special activiation key the system gives you. And Bootcamp and Parallels both work.

I did this with no trouble at all.

Worked like a charm!

overbyte · Feb 21, 2008, 10:31 AM

automated telephone message coughed up no worries

just be sure if you're using oem to say that it came with the computer and is not installed on anything else

word

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Jack Flash macrumors 65816 Join Date: May 2007	Windows XP Activation Blues (Bootcamp - Parallels) Apparently Parallels has rendered my Windows XP Home OEM COA useless. It required me to reactivate but I am not allowed to. What do I do?
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overbyte macrumors newbie Join Date: Sep 2003	automated telephone message coughed up no worries just be sure if you're using oem to say that it came with the computer and is not installed on anything else word __________________ ;oB
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gormond macrumors regular Join Date: Sep 2007	Don't quote me on this, but I don't think you are meant to use a OEM version of windows to install on a virtual machine so i'm not sure if micro$oft would help you out if you called them.
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