Guest Wildprairie Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 I am trying to upgrade a laptop with an oem mce 2004 system. I have an older version xp pro upgrade disk and when I try it, I get a message that the installed version is newer than the one I am trying to install. I slipstreamed sp3 into the disk and now it is willing to make the upgrade, but then says my cd key is not valid. FYI concerns about piracy: The xppro disk was on a P3 that I salvaged for parts. It will be on only 1 machine. PS: When I start a clean install with the original disk it does accept the key that came with it. I also tried all the keys in the pid.inf and the unattend.txt files.
Guest Wildprairie Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 RE: CD key not valid after slipstreaming sp3 After I posted my question, I installed an old version of xp home on a clean hd and tried upgrading with my slipstreamed disk. It worked fine, so the trouble must be with mce 2004 ???
Guest smlunatick Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 Re: CD key not valid after slipstreaming sp3 On Jul 15, 3:57 pm, Wildprairie <Wildprai...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I am trying to upgrade a laptop with an oem mce 2004 system. I have an older > version xp pro upgrade disk and when I try it, I get a message that the > installed version is newer than the one I am trying to install. I > slipstreamed sp3 into the disk and now it is willing to make the upgrade, but > then says my cd key is not valid. > > FYI concerns about piracy: The xppro disk was on a P3 that I salvaged for > parts. It will be on only 1 machine. > > PS: When I start a clean install with the original disk it does accept the > key that came with it. I also tried all the keys in the pid.inf and the > unattend.txt files. XP versions and CD keys are not interchangeable! Media Centre Edition (MCE) keys require a MCE install media. XP Pro CD requires an XP Pro key. You can not update the XP while using a different type of CD key. MCE XP version is a modified XP Pro version with a lot of network setting removed and additional "media" applications added.
Guest Wildprairie Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 Re: CD key not valid after slipstreaming sp3 Thanks smlunatick for responding. However, the first key I tried in many attempts was the one that came with the xp pro disk. Sorry if I worded the original question poorly.
Guest Daave Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 Re: CD key not valid after slipstreaming sp3 "Wildprairie" <Wildprairie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C1D988FC-9D89-44E3-9A16-D1A7718E563C@microsoft.com... > After I posted my question, I installed an old version of xp home on a > clean > hd and tried upgrading with my slipstreamed disk. It worked fine, so > the > trouble must be with mce 2004 ??? Only XP Home may be upgraded to XP Pro. See "Windows XP supported upgrade paths": http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292607
Guest sgopus Posted July 18, 2008 Posted July 18, 2008 Re: CD key not valid after slipstreaming sp3 The key supplied was for the original cd and service pack level, since you added the scv pk3 I would think the install key is no longer valid. since you discovered this by installing clean and using the original cd, problem solved. "Wildprairie" wrote: > Thanks smlunatick for responding. However, the first key I tried in many > attempts was the one that came with the xp pro disk. Sorry if I worded the > original question poorly.
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