Reinstall the correct Product Key

I have a genuine copy of Windows XP which came preinstalled when I purchased
my Compaq PC. Recently when the hard disk crashed, Win XP was reinstalled on
my PC by a computer technician. However, the Product Key used by the
technician is not genuine. I want to reinstall the genuine Product Key. Do I
have to reinstall Win XP? Will I lose all the data? Please clarify the
procedure.

Barb
Tue Jul 01 01:27:47 PDT 2008

see if
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/selfhelp/XPPkuinst.aspx?displaylang=en&sGuid=f08e7fd7-866f-49fd-bb7f-29db55e20443
helps

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:24:00 -0700, DT <DT@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>I have a genuine copy of Windows XP which came preinstalled when I purchased
>my Compaq PC. Recently when the hard disk crashed, Win XP was reinstalled on
>my PC by a computer technician. However, the Product Key used by the
>technician is not genuine. I want to reinstall the genuine Product Key. Do I
>have to reinstall Win XP? Will I lose all the data? Please clarify the
>procedure.
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Barb Bowman
MS-MVP
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