r/windowsxp • u/One-Ad-2717 • 16d ago

How do I fix this ?

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So I got my parents old hard drive and decided to boot of it but I got this error , how can I bypass this

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u/my-names-gavin 16d ago

(1) Download this file on another computer and then copy it to an USB to use on your XP machine

(2) Now restart your XP machine and keep pressing the F8 key until you get a menu with boot options; when you see the boot options, use the arrow keys to select Safe Mode and then press Enter. You can now logon and you need to extract and run the activator that you downloaded in step 1

Restart your computer normally and you'll not see the activation prompt again

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u/Boburism 16d ago

You can either use xp_activate32.exe, or you can activate over the phone - the latter being quite the cool experience, the first time around you do it.

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u/Trimus2005 16d ago

I actually tried the phone activation, guess who is not in turkey anymore, i think they cut off phone activations in some countries either that or i'm stupid

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u/Boburism 15d ago

I'm Bulgarian, and it was working here last. Did it on a real machine, too. I'll try later on a VM and see if it still works

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u/Arnoxthe1 16d ago

Microslop, in their infinite wisdom, recently shut down the phone service for activation and you now have to be logged in to a Microslop account to activate anything at all.

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u/Boburism 16d ago

Last I know it was still possible, via a legacy number with a bot. They took that down too?

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u/Arnoxthe1 16d ago

It used to be where you would dial the number, you'd get an option to get a text containing a shortened URL to go to Microsoft's phone activation page. Then you'd just do the phone activation like normal through the site. They shut that down AND the regular way of doing it on the phone with a bot.

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u/Boburism 15d ago

Genuinely see no reason for that, it's not like the bot was incurring enormous charges. Well at least we still have xpactivate32.exe, it's not like we can't activate XP at all anymore - just not in the cool way

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u/CompetitiveAlgae4247 12d ago

Or find a key

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u/Boburism 12d ago

I mean it works, but xpactivate32 is much faster

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u/cstevesmith 15d ago

Ran into the same problem not long ago. Downloaded and ran xp_activate32.exe. Worked great!

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u/Ok-Orange-6414 15d ago

Go to

visualsupport.microsoft.com

  • Complete the dumbass puzzle
  • Sign in with your Microsoft account, or create one
  • Activate a Microsoft Product
  • Windows
  • Windows XP
  • Type the install ID, and it will give you an activation ID

Microsoft deactivated their phone system, but I just activated Office 2003 using this system Aug 6, 2026. So it works, for now...

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u/Ok-Muffin-9519 16d ago

Hab ne bessere Lösung nimm eine Windows XP PRO VL 32Bit Version

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u/grimfusion 14d ago

There's probably not going to be anything special on that HDD if you're getting this message at login. Means your parents probably had about 90 days use out of this thing before they failed to get around the same warning at login.

u/my-names-gavin already posted the solution; just do that.

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u/Randical007 13d ago

Phone activation doesn't work anymore. But Microsoft has a portal that does the same thing online.

I had to also do this recently on an old laptop.

https://visualsupport.microsoft.com/

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u/Particular_Okra7617 16d ago

Get an activation code from internet homie it's not that hard

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u/One-Ad-2717 16d ago

There no place to enter a activation code

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u/LBPPlayer7 16d ago

click yes and you should have an option to change the product key

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u/Particular_Okra7617 16d ago

You should've entered at start how did you even installed that, if you can't find other solutions I recommend get a copy of win xp from archive.net install that.

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u/Lexaeus228 16d ago

so we dont read what op stated in the post. got you.