You'll need to contact Dell and order their
Dell Reinstallation CD. The Dell Product Keys
will not work with a "Retail Version" of XP
because they are "OEM" Product Keys.

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"Treggeee" wrote:

| about a year ago i purchased a few computers with xp pro on it. At the time I
| thought xp was to buggy to use so i downgraded most computers to 2000. Now
| that i think xp is stable, i recently purchased an upgrade cd (The cd's that
| came with these computers are all clean installs). When i enter the key that
| is on the computer, it says wrong key. How do go about doing this legally
| without losing data (clean installs) and using the keys that came with the
| computers (90% dells). Thanks in advace