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Hi,
After hours of sorting out Mother-in-Law's virused PC, finally got it all
back to how it should. Managed to get the necessary security updates from
Windows Update to block the trojan intrusion. However, next time I accessed
the Windows Update site, SP2 was the only Update applicable. I duly
downloaded this and tried to install - Came back with the error:
Cannot validate this copy of XP (or something to that effect).
So i checked the version using the "Is this copy of Windows legal" option.
Again, came back with a similar error.
The PC was bought second-hand with XP Pro already installed - I believe it
was from a job lot of computers a university was selling.
How can I get SP2 to install/validate the existing version of XP?
Many thanks for anticipated assistance.
Kind regards,
Dean Fraiquin
Hi,
After hours of sorting out Mother-in-Law's virused PC, finally got it all
back to how it should. Managed to get the necessary security updates from
Windows Update to block the trojan intrusion. However, next time I accessed
the Windows Update site, SP2 was the only Update applicable. I duly
downloaded this and tried to install - Came back with the error:
Cannot validate this copy of XP (or something to that effect).
So i checked the version using the "Is this copy of Windows legal" option.
Again, came back with a similar error.
The PC was bought second-hand with XP Pro already installed - I believe it
was from a job lot of computers a university was selling.
How can I get SP2 to install/validate the existing version of XP?
Many thanks for anticipated assistance.
Kind regards,
Dean Fraiquin