After a defective boot drive had to be replaced on my XP PRO, he asked me to activity and my active code will not work. indicates an invalid sound. I just replaced the hard drive

I just had to REPLACE a HARD DISK broke ON MY WINDOWS XP PRO AND WHEN I REINSTALLED operating SYS ASKED FOR the activation CODE, THEN SAYS MY CODE WAS INVALID AND WONT turn ON. ANITA PHONE TALKED TO A COMPUTER AND NO HELP. I HAVE THE SAME PC. JUST REPLACED HARD DRIVE.  IN ANY CASE TO ACTIVATE. I BOUGHT THIS NUMBER OUT OF MICROSOFT FOR 145.  LARRY BLAKE

Hi beenabean,

Refer to the article below and try the mentioned step, check to see if it helps.

You receive an error message after you enter the product key when you try to install Windows XP

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310637

You are prompted to activate Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 every time that you start the computer

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/312295

How to find a phone number for a Microsoft Product Activation Center

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950929

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