hi
i also had a copy of xp corp retail in EXE, opened with with winace and burned the contents (properly, et al)
after some uh..tricky stuffs...mainly i wanted to put my entire hdd and all 3 partitions of it into ntfs, but i couldn't put the primary partition (the one i would install to) into ntfs (from fat32) because it contained some files needed for installation...i figured well ill del the extra 2 partitions and create another 8gig partition and install on it..then del or w/e the fat32 partition and put it in ntfs, then install xp on that partition or just del it altoegher...lengthy but i ddidn't wanna waste too much time, well anyways, i got xp installed and uh, well everythin was goin good (i hated havin to install from winme, i wanted a normal install from dos but didn't appear i had much of a choice until i had xp installed...i ultimately ended up in a dual boot environment)...well when i start it up it says Windows Product Activation error, problem preventing windows from accurately checking auth etc...well then i click ok and go to log on...wow it says it again and then sticks at the logon screen...so i can't get past that so good game i suppose...
anyways, i heard that drive letter changes can cause this...mm ye maybe on legal copies but...i dunno, how can i change anything in the ntfs registry when i can't get past the log on screen lmfao...
i dl'd this 500mb file and was a big deal (since the comp i put it on couldn't seem to get past 28k, took a week to get it...after much deliberation on which 'file' to get..) anyways ye i have my reasons for that so uh broadband idiots kk stf they don't have that where i am...anyways, uh..ye gfg microsoft i mean,
i don't have the money to buy xp pro until another month and i just built this comp a couple weeks ago, I WANT XP NOW lmao...
can't even use Hyper threadin under ME and i get like soo many probs in me...that i heard don't exist in xp...
sad sad day for me~