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Hi,
My system has been a dual boot since ages: 6GB windows XP and 54GB linux. I only use xp for win-only games, autocad, solidworks. Trouble is that recently I've been using a lot more autocad and solidworks, so I installed VMware so I won't have to reboot every time I want to use those programs. It worked just fine, but then I ran out of disk space on my virtual machine, so I deleted the virtual machine and installed XP again on another. But now XP wouldn't activate: "key has been used too many times"!!! How can that be????
Should I contact MS about this? Or what can I do?

Many thanks.

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Living without Windows is like drinking Fruit Juice instead of Coke.

if you bought the copy of XP, give MS a call and see what they say.

yeps I did some more research and it seems that calling microsoft will most likely solve my problem.

So thanks, I'll drop a little note if it worked.