[Dwaine]

Okay, I will try to make my story breif, I had a local kid install mycomputer and hardware, I am a busy glass blower. Well 3days ago a window pops up syaing, "you have 3 days to activate your product, would you like to do it now?" I click yes, and then the blue screen with Keys pops up and says my product is activated. it runs fine, until 3 days later. the small window, the big blue window says my product is activated. then boom it shuts off. I goto safe mode to format, but the PC will not allow me to format. I try to reinstall the windows disk the [bleeep] gave me, but it says "you are running a newer version of windows, so it will not format or over write. I called MS and they said it was a bootleg disk, but it looks real, the serial is wron. what canI do? anyting?

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This xp "disc"... does it have the microsoft holograms embedded in the disc, or does it have a label on it? What color is it?

makai

[makai]

This xp "disc"... does it have the microsoft holograms embedded in the disc, or does it have a label on it? What color is it?

makai

[Dwaine]

It has the accually holograms on it... its te wierdest thing... I can't believe it wont let me format

[Dwaine]

I just found, and d/led a prograsm caled dareks boot and nuke, its supposed to be though and remove everything off the hard drive, we shall see... It runs slow, but it makkes (supposedly) 3 swipes to clean it all