From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Thu Jun 20 2002 - 03:59:44 EDT
why the h--- did'nt you ask me to email you a recovery CD set..?!
geeze, you're all customers at one time or another...
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Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "STeve Andre'" <andres_at_msu.edu>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: Are ThinkPad's Win2K product codes somehow special?
Heh! I've done exactly that mysef, from time to time. No, it
isn't that--I spent time looking at the damned things with the
magnafying glass in my swiss army knife...
No, I'm sure this is something else, some Faustian sample of
Hell which I have not yet encountered.
Tomorrow, I am going to make noises at the licensing people
here, and see what they say about the fact that the PRINTED
key code on my "official" MS Win2K CD doesn't work.
Thanks for the idea, however Greg.
--STeve Andre'
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 21:51, Greg Langham wrote:
> Did you say you've tried a couple of different product keys and neither
> worked? I know this sounds very obvious, but I spent 30 minutes the other
> day puzzling over a product key until I noticed I was typing an 8 for a B.
> The font used for the product key makes those two characters hard to tell
> apart. Any remote chance this is what you are running into?
>
> Greg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: STeve Andre' [mailto:andres_at_msu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 3:31 PM
> To: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
> Subject: Re: Are ThinkPad's Win2K product codes somehow special?
>
> As I understand it, I have only OEM CDs. I think.
>
> Then again, I have another Win2K CD at home with a
> different code, and that code doesn't work with the CD
> I have.
>
> At this point I am beginning to suspect that I have 1) a defective
> MS Windows 2000 CD, and 2) that not all codes work with wll
> Win2K CDs. So far, I can't get anyone at IBM to get me any
> real data.
>
> --STeve Andre'
>
> On Wednesday 19 June 2002 16:27, Rob Bell wrote:
> > I doubt whether the product code is unique to IBM, but it could be wrong
> > for the media that you are using. You might be using an upgrade version
> > of Win2K and the code is for the full version or vice versa. I guess it
> > is always possible that OEMs get a unique Win2K build (or at least
> > installer) that won't accept keys from outside sources.
> >
> > Do you have access to a non-OEM install CD? That might work better with
> > your key.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Rob
> >
> > andres_at_msu.edu wrote:
> > > Here's an interesting case:
> > >
> > > I have a ThinkPad a20p that I have to get up and running today
> > > if at all possible. The disk died so I'm building up a new system
> > > from cratch without benefir of the recovery disk, which IBM is
> > > sending me. Since I have to do this now, I can't use their CD.
> > >
> > > So I have a "Windows 2000 Professinal CD" that I have with
> > > my licenses for upgraqding Dell's and put that in the CD and
> > > started using that.
> > >
> > > When I got to the 25 char product code entry screen, I got
> > > stuck. My product code on the bottom of the CD will not
> > > work. Neither will the product code associated with the CD(!).
> > >
> > > I now think I have a defective Windows CD (official CD, not a
> > > clone) on my hands.
> > >
> > > My question is this: is there anything special about an IBM
> > > recovery CD or product code, such that taking a normal Win2K
> > > CD won't build properly on a ThinkPad? Thats never been the
> > > case before, but I've never built Win2K from a non-recovery CD
> > > on a ThinkPad before. Therefore I think my CD is bad, unless
> > > people tell me that IBM did something "weird".
> > >
> > > Thanks...
> > >
> > > --STeve Andre'
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