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Old Mar 20, 2010 | 12:34 pm
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Originally Posted by lin821
1. My CD is XP-Pro (English) while the computer is XP Home in Chinese. It shouldn't matter since I only need the Recovery Console to repair the corrupted system files, right?
This is probably the problem.
XP Pro requires a different key than XP Home.

Unfortunately, I don't have any advice other than to call Microsoft. They have free phone support for security-related problems: http://www.microsoft.com/protect/support/default.mspx
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