I purchased sony laptop last year .for virus which I have had to format the hard drive on.
Unfortunately, no CD's came with the purchase. I have tried to load windows XP from another XP disk I already had but it does not seem to accept my serial key.
I have the original serial key as it is a sticker attached to the computer. The sticker states
How to replace Microsoft software: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326246Please note: I am not a Microsoft employee...only a voluntary forum contributor.