Here's the situation, my parents have a NEC laptop which is about 3 years old running XP home. The OS was installed on a partition on the hard drive which became corrupted and could not be accessed. They are now in a situation where they have a genuine COA for XP home but no software disc to install it. I have called microsoft and they want $50 to send out a 50 cent disc. NEC can not help either.
Does anybody have an original windows xp home disc I could borrow? It would have to be the original without any of the sevice packs included or my parents 25 digit key will not work. (I have tried a recent xp home with sp3 disc and my parents key will not work with it.) I will not be using your key, I will be using my parents key printed on the bottom of the laptop.
The other option is if anyone has a genuine copy of xp home/xp media centre/xp pro they want to sell they would consider that.
I've had their laptop for about 4 days now trying to get it sorted and they are suffering from withdrawls....
Thanks.