[Aleister]

Greetings everybody,

I own a Toshiba Satellite P200-16V, and for the past few days I've been trying to find a way to downgrade Vista to XP professional. It's the same old "disc not detected" story. Well, I've tried nlite and I thought I found THE solution.

I followed the instructions and burnt a cd with the XP Professional SP2 OS, including the SATA driver, I started the typical procedure, and EVERYTHING went just fine, 'till the "Authentication Screen" popped up, requesting the product key. All of a sudden, the product key of my genuine XP pro copy, ISN'T VALID?! I've tried numerous keys (genuine or not) just to give 'em a check, but none seems to work. It doesn't make sense.

I can only assume it has something to do with nlite. I've quick-searched the forum for any similar thread but haven't found any. What should I do?

This post has been edited by Aleister: 26 January 2008 - 06:30 PM

[PC_LOAD_LETTER]

my guess is your using the wrong version of XP pro(there a at least 5 -OEM, Corp/vlk, Retail, Upgrade, SP2c) because ive never heard of nlite causing cdkey authentication issues like you are describing.

edit: unless you integrated SP3 then you could have the same issue as this thread http://www.msfn.org/...ey-t111379.html

[Ponch]

Aleister, on Jan 27 2008, 01:20 AM, said:

I can only assume it has something to do with nlite.

No. The copy of XP you use probably wouldn't accept that key on that machine at first.

[RJARRRPCGP]

If this occurred suddenly, you're Windows installation source is corrupted!

[Aleister]

It was indeed a different WinXP Pro version (I've no idea where that cd came from), I found mine and got it to work perfectly! I stumbled upon another topic on this forum too, describing the different cd labels in regard of the different XP pro versions. Thanks a lot

[PC_LOAD_LETTER]

Aleister, on Jan 27 2008, 05:39 PM, said:

It was indeed a different WinXP Pro version (I've no idea where that cd came from), I found mine and got it to work perfectly! I stumbled upon another topic on this forum too, describing the different cd labels in regard of the different XP pro versions. Thanks a lot

**** im good got it on the first guess. glad to see you got it working.

[browpr]

I am using nlite to merge sp2 with xp so I can run xp on a mac. Created the new cd fine. But when I got to the where xp asked for the key code and put it in. It said not the right code. How can I find out what the code is, since somehow it changed. I checked it several times to make sure I entered it correctly.

[Ponch]

Well, if you read the thread before posting, you probably expect the same answer: this has nothing to do with nLite.

[Speeddymon]

Ponch, on Jan 28 2008, 06:16 PM, said:

Well, if you read the thread before posting, you probably expect the same answer: this has nothing to do with nLite.

not to mention that you have hijacked this thread. It is best if you start a new thread.