I would say easy option at the moment is to install linux mint and continue using it until you could get a disk that matches your license, or buy a version of xp pro.Who knows, you might end up liking it and getting use to it. If you did, chances are your old operating system is gone.and also your recovery partition if the whole drive was used.
how many partitions are there? Is there one named recovery?ĭid you do a clean install of xp pro? or an upgrade? I am assuming you did a clean install. Is there by any change a recovery partition in your hard drive? Hello, I was about to suggest contacting e-machines for a recovery disk.but I went to their site and in the download section for e-recovery, it says they do not provide e-recovery for windows XP PRO anymore.therefore, if they don't support XP PRO, they don't support home edition. I'm not without average intelligence, but I am, after all, a blond behind the wheel (rather, keyboard in this case). Thanks in advance, and don't be too rough on me please. If you were able to follow all that, can anyone think of a solution? If nothing else, does anyone know how to use the "Wine" programs in Linux that open Windows objects? It's a cool OS, but very complicated. Isn't there some way I can install with my original codes off the internet? It's licensed to me and the codes are on the back. So here we have a hard drive with Windows XP Prof, non-accessible due to log on problems and illegalities, and Linux Mint, installed, which is not the right fit. My computer is an e-machine that came with Windows XP Home pre-installed. What the ? It turns out that it's not legal for me to be using it anyway, so that point is mute.
The same "friend" that lent me the Windows XP Professional disk from he**, lent me his "genuine" copy of Windows XP Professional, installed it with his codes, and it started up asking me for, you guessed it, my admin password. No way to shorten this, sorry, it gets more complicated.
So, I had a Linux Mint start up disk which has allowed me to at least surf the web, but I'm more comfortable with my Windows XP. I had tried several methods to retrieve my password without costly application help to no avail. Didn't even open basic files and needless to say could not be updated on line. Help is one of them, as well as troubleshooting, add new software, and many more. To top it off, towards the end of the process, it skips down a huge list of programs and apps that it disables. The disk was horrible and loaded without many of the basic files. I forgot my admin password and wound up installing an unlicensed copy of Windows XP Professional over my Windows XP Home. Trying to make this story short, here's what happened.
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