Additionally, VL editions are Upgrade licenses ONLY, and therfore cannot be used as the primary or base license for a computer (i.e. Businesses, schools and gov'ts normally use VL editions for flexibility in installing many computers. As a rule, VL editions of XP should not be sold to individual consumers. The particular Product Key you are using, which ends in 3R89F-D2KXW-VPK3J, is a widely pirated key, and it looks like it recently (end of March, 2009 for time zones other than USA, and very recently for some USA time zones) had a geographic block put on it to try to curb its use, which probably explains why it was showing as Genuine up until recently.Īlso note that the installed license for XP Pro is a Volume License. A geogrpahically blocked key is blocked when it is detected in use outside of the worldwide geographic area(s) covered by its VL Agreement. Also, MS may have blocked the key if it notices a pattern of misuse, ie, more installations of XP using that key than authorized.
VLKs are blocked by Microsoft at the request of the original keyholder for such reasons as the key was lost, stolen, compromised, misused, or expired. Hello eeibob, Right now, your computer has a Volume Licensing edition of XP Pro installed (Line 10), and that installation was done with a now-geographically blocked Volume Licensing Key (VLK) (Line 2).
OEM Activation 1.0 Data-> BIOS string matches: no Marker string from BIOS: N/A Marker string from OEMBIOS.DAT: N/A, hr = 0x80004005 Here is the dianostic Diagnostic Report (.0): - WGA Data-> Validation Status: Geographically blocked PID Validation Code: 13Ĭached Validation Code: N/A Windows Product Key: *****-*****-3R89F-D2KXW-VPK3J Windows Product Key Hash: Ro/Y7HENE9CfW7lW+QtlNbYQEE8= Windows Product ID: 7648391-23334 Windows Product ID Type: 1 Windows License Type: Volume Windows OS version: 00.3.0.pro ID.
I have a MSDN license and could just reinstall XP pro with another copy and product key, but that defeats the original purchase. Now re-installed the restore image and am gettting the "The product key found on this computer is not valid for use in your region " message. I have a restore disk image which I have used to restore once before.
I have a system which has XP pro on it that I bought 01-09.
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