Here's my little problem. I recently contracted a virus on my computer, so I basically stuck in a friend's WIN XP PRO CD to erase and reinstall on my main drive where I keep my OS on.
Everything goes smoothly until it asks me to activate and register myself. So I thought okay I've been told I don't need to register myself so I should be okay. I go to activate Windows and it says that the 25 digit serial number exceeded it's uses. I try to enter it in any ways but it still says the same thing.
It says I now have only 30 days till it expires. What happens exactly when it expires? When I had my computer put together, my Dad hired someone to install the software onto my computer and I don't know exactly what he did. It seemed like he had some sort of hack or crack though where it never asked me to activate my CD.
Any ways... if anyone could help me out, I would appriciate it alot =)