The techs at PC Club upgraded my computer with a new motherboard, cpu, and hard drive. They installed XP Pro using a volume licensed copy of their XP Pro saying it came with the system. The store went out of business about four months ago. I just want to keep my computer environment in tact. I have XP Office and a lot of business analysis software installed. It would take me a week to reinstall it all and my data.
It seems really petty to require a re-install when a user has been duped by a reseller instead of just buying and applying a COA. I thought you had 50,000 programmers in India, can't at least one of them write you some code to fix this?