Windows XP Activation Blues (Bootcamp - Parallels)

[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?

 

[gormond]

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]

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]

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]

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

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