Reinstall XP Pro upgrade after formatting the hard drive, the invalid product key

I'm going through a gateway with xp adding purched proessional xp home. The hard drive has been formatted before the upgrade.  When I get the xp professional product key I get an error message indicating the product key is not valid.  The product key, as I enter corresponds to the product key in the business directory to the i386/unatended.txt xp CD.

Thank you

Steve

* original title - family xp to xp pro upgrade *.

Hi SteveConley,

1. have you fully formatted the hard drive?

2. what type of Windows XP Professional CD? It of an upgrade or clean installation CD?

As you have formatted the hard disk, you can perform a clean install will impose you an operating system available on the computer to perform an installation upgrade.

You cannot use the upgrade product key to perform a clean installation.

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