Altered PID will not accept my VOL key

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Art Vandelay

Hi there
I can't find my XP Volume license disk. I had read about being able to
change the CD type by editing the setupp.ini file in the i386 folder and
re-burning the CD. I took an OEM version of XP from my Action Pack
subscription and did this, but it will not accept my key - I get "The
product ID you entered is not valid". The disk has been changed to a Volume
license one though - as the box does say "Type the Volume License Product
key below".
Is the Pid not enough to change?

Here are the contents of setupp.ini from my OEM cd:

[Pid]
ExtraData=786F687170637175716954806365EF
Pid=76487OEM

I have altered them to:

[Pid]
ExtraData=786F687170637175716954806365EF
Pid=76487270

but that is not working. Is there something else that I need to be doing?

Thanks for your time.
 
Hi there
I can't find my XP Volume license disk. I had read about being able to
change the CD type by editing the setupp.ini file in the i386 folder
and re-burning the CD. I took an OEM version of XP from my Action Pack
subscription and did this, but it will not accept my key - I get "The
product ID you entered is not valid". The disk has been changed to a
Volume license one though - as the box does say "Type the Volume
License Product key below".
Is the Pid not enough to change?
Click to expand...

Won't work. The PIDGEN.DLL among other files only accepts certain keys,
you need the VL media.

Adam
 
Just a followup on Adam's post, since other people will continue to have this question. I have been looking into this on other sites. Basically, you can change a disk to act like OEM, Retail, etc., but you can't change a non-Volume License to act like a Volume License. But from what other sites say, that seems to be the only real limitation.
 
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