XP issue

@learnerxyz wrote:

thanks. i would upgrade but i’m not going to give M$ another dime when i have a legit copy of xp, unless there is a workaround for vaidation. soapbox: i should be able to upgrade my box w/o all the flipping hassle M$ creates!

 

i wonder if there is a thrid party solution to the MTP situation

Call them. Explain that your hard Drive is the same and that you did some other hardware upgrades, and that yyour Windows for some reason windows thinks its not valid. I have done this in the past and they gave me a validation number.