Comments on: How to get the original product key number from my OEM Packard Bell Desktop PC? When my pc crashed and? http://chaintools.com/blog/how-to-get-the-original-product-key-number-from-my-oem-packard-bell-desktop-pc-when-my-pc-crashed-and/ ChainTools.com Tue, 22 May 2012 08:46:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Yanni Depp http://chaintools.com/blog/how-to-get-the-original-product-key-number-from-my-oem-packard-bell-desktop-pc-when-my-pc-crashed-and/comment-page-1/#comment-1364 Yanni Depp Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:03:23 +0000 http://chaintools.com/blog/how-to-get-the-original-product-key-number-from-my-oem-packard-bell-desktop-pc-when-my-pc-crashed-and/#comment-1364 Because the pirated XP is the corporate edition. Your key is for the OEM edition. Keys from one don't work on the other. You'll need to get hold of the OEM edition of XP. It sould have come with your machine as a recovery disk, or a part of the hard drive set aside for recovery. When installing the pirate XP, there's a chance you wiped this. Because the pirated XP is the corporate edition.

Your key is for the OEM edition.

Keys from one don’t work on the other. You’ll need to get hold of the OEM edition of XP. It sould have come with your machine as a recovery disk, or a part of the hard drive set aside for recovery.

When installing the pirate XP, there’s a chance you wiped this.

]]> By: fooles.troupe http://chaintools.com/blog/how-to-get-the-original-product-key-number-from-my-oem-packard-bell-desktop-pc-when-my-pc-crashed-and/comment-page-1/#comment-1363 fooles.troupe Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:38:24 +0000 http://chaintools.com/blog/how-to-get-the-original-product-key-number-from-my-oem-packard-bell-desktop-pc-when-my-pc-crashed-and/#comment-1363 I think the word 'pirated' may have something to do with your problem! If you didn't have the product key number written down anywhere, I'd say you are without help. If you bought the item from a 'reputable chain store', 1) you should have bee given a genuine CDROM with a genuine product key number written on it somewhere. 2) Some OEMs do not give you a CDROM, so the only place the number is - is on the Hard Drive. You seem to have overwritten this more than once, and all your moving around of partitions may have not helped either.. BTW, the Product key numbers for different releases often have a different format, so you can't just use any product key number. I think the word ‘pirated’ may have something to do with your problem!

If you didn’t have the product key number written down anywhere, I’d say you are without help.

If you bought the item from a ‘reputable chain store’,
1) you should have bee given a genuine CDROM with a genuine product key number written on it somewhere.

2) Some OEMs do not give you a CDROM, so the only place the number is – is on the Hard Drive.

You seem to have overwritten this more than once, and all your moving around of partitions may have not helped either..

BTW, the Product key numbers for different releases often have a different format, so you can’t just use any product key number.

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