Thanks for the response
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Why didn't the person who installed XP Pro activate it at the time? Further, why is she waiting until the last minute to Activate? Did she not see the constant pop-up that says 'You must activate me!'?
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for reasons i dont know and like everything else i believe she was just leaving it to the last minute.
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She can still access the files after that time, just not through using that disk alone. She would need to take that disk and hook it up to another computer as a slave drive, then she can access everything on it
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so she cant access anything at the moment as the time is up but if i was to make it a slave drive then she could access the files that she needs?
so as its a laptop she has would i need to get an external enclosure, make it then a external hdd, connect it to my desktop and boot that usb but as a slave?
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Yes, they will most likely not activate it for you due to that. It's technically not a cracked copy, as it still requires a CD Key, but they will ask why you reinstalled, where you obtained Pro from, etc.
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i thought as much
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Does she have the recovery CD's from when she bought the system?
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yes she has the original one. so what could she do with this? would this activate the Version of XP she has or would she need to format and reinstall from scratch?
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Do you know more about computers than the other guy who installed Pro and left her out to hang? If so, falling out or not, try to make amends and help her fix her problem. And tell the other guy to keep his mitts off from now on!
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Yeah thats the thing i would have sorted it out for her but im trying my best now and time is running out and yeah this other fella thinks hes know everything about everything... you get the picture?
Thanks for your help