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From: Some Guy 
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 09:21:18 -0500
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

> It didn't work on this machine (came - new - with XP installed). Well, I 
> say didn't work: it at first came up with an error box saying "Cannot 
> collect configuration data (-204). (a) You are running a volume-licensed 
> version or OEM release of Windows XP. (b) You have not activated your 
> installation of XP, yet. OK". (I assume there's an implied "OR" between 
> those.) When I click OK, it comes up with another window headed "Fully 
> Licensed" in big letters, below which are ten text boxes for things like 
> Processor model, which are indeed greyed out; it does show the first 15 
> characters of the key though.

Take your key sequence (the entire part of it that XPInfo shows, or 
maybe just 1 or 2 of the sequences) and do a google search on that.

If your key is OEM, then your key should be well-known and will appear 
in some list or discussion somewhere at some time.

If you can't find any mention of any part of your key on the internet, 
chances are very high it's not oem or vlk.
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