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Need last 2 digits of Product Key to Install
A friend of mine ask me to sell their computer on eBay and so the first thing
I did was format the HD. I am now using the Dell Restore CD to reinstall WinME. The only problem is that the sticker on the side of the case is torn right at the last 2 digits of the Product Key!!! What can I do about this? I wasn't sure who to talk to at Microsoft so if you can help please do. Thanks |
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The only people who can help you are Dell since it is they whop issued the
key not Microsoft. Microsoft don't use recovery CDs, these are produced by OEMs such as Dell who are legally obliged to provide full support, this being a condition they entered into with Microsoft when they purchased copies of Win Me at a vast discount. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP navytrumpet wrote: A friend of mine ask me to sell their computer on eBay and so the first thing I did was format the HD. I am now using the Dell Restore CD to reinstall WinME. The only problem is that the sticker on the side of the case is torn right at the last 2 digits of the Product Key!!! What can I do about this? I wasn't sure who to talk to at Microsoft so if you can help please do. Thanks |
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I'll try and contact Dell Support. Thank you.
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Some options:
1.Talk to Dell. 2. Talk to a brick wall as an alternative to 1. 3. Start the last two digits at 00 and go to 99. ....Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/index.html In microsoft.public.windowsme.setup, "navytrumpet" wrote: A friend of mine ask me to sell their computer on eBay and so the first thing I did was format the HD. I am now using the Dell Restore CD to reinstall WinME. The only problem is that the sticker on the side of the case is torn right at the last 2 digits of the Product Key!!! What can I do about this? I wasn't sure who to talk to at Microsoft so if you can help please do. Thanks |
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GOT IT!! Didn't even think about that!
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Alan,
You forgot point 4 4. When you find the digits, WRITE THEM DOWN! Good luck, BarryG "Alan Edwards" wrote: Some options: 1.Talk to Dell. 2. Talk to a brick wall as an alternative to 1. 3. Start the last two digits at 00 and go to 99. ....Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/index.html In microsoft.public.windowsme.setup, "navytrumpet" wrote: A friend of mine ask me to sell their computer on eBay and so the first thing I did was format the HD. I am now using the Dell Restore CD to reinstall WinME. The only problem is that the sticker on the side of the case is torn right at the last 2 digits of the Product Key!!! What can I do about this? I wasn't sure who to talk to at Microsoft so if you can help please do. Thanks |
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(also - don't forget, they may be alpha's - so that adds another few
thousand possibilities to the pot..... ) -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "BarryG" wrote in message ... Alan, You forgot point 4 4. When you find the digits, WRITE THEM DOWN! Good luck, BarryG "Alan Edwards" wrote: Some options: 1.Talk to Dell. 2. Talk to a brick wall as an alternative to 1. 3. Start the last two digits at 00 and go to 99. ....Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/index.html In microsoft.public.windowsme.setup, "navytrumpet" wrote: A friend of mine ask me to sell their computer on eBay and so the first thing I did was format the HD. I am now using the Dell Restore CD to reinstall WinME. The only problem is that the sticker on the side of the case is torn right at the last 2 digits of the Product Key!!! What can I do about this? I wasn't sure who to talk to at Microsoft so if you can help please do. Thanks |
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