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**JMody** · 10-25-2006, 10:17 PM

Unfortunately, it is my understanding that Gateway made my hard drive with a partition. Thats where the restore CD is. The only way to do it to my understanding is to use the same HD. Now that i have purchased a new 120gig Hard drive, I would like to use that in my laptop and just use my 80gig that got screwy as an external HD. So i would need a disk to re-install windows. I was told that there is a way to retreive my reg key from the old HD that way if i get a xp home disk i could install it on the new HD and use the same reg key as my old HD. now i just need to find a xp home disk. Anyone have any ideas?

10-25-2006, 10:17 PM	#9 (permalink)
JMody I helped the forums. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Saugus, Mass Posts: 72 OS: Windows Vista Ultimate SP1	Unfortunately, it is my understanding that Gateway made my hard drive with a partition. Thats where the restore CD is. The only way to do it to my understanding is to use the same HD. Now that i have purchased a new 120gig Hard drive, I would like to use that in my laptop and just use my 80gig that got screwy as an external HD. So i would need a disk to re-install windows. I was told that there is a way to retreive my reg key from the old HD that way if i get a xp home disk i could install it on the new HD and use the same reg key as my old HD. now i just need to find a xp home disk. Anyone have any ideas?