Yeah, that's about what I did. I restored the ghost image and then rebooted and of course, no joy. So I stuck the XP disk in and reinstalled over the top of the original install. Everything looked good, but it has mucho glitches. I will just have a clean install from the get go this weekend.
Ghost has always done fine until I switched to SCSI. The boot.ini and ntldr is just not compatible at that level. There are work arounds for most other changes, but that is too basic to jiggle with. Nuttin to do but start over.
Back to Activation....... I just think the hackers have this stuff figured out before the first copy of Vista hit the stores. Just like Xbox games and DVD movies, it's a waste of time. Pirates steal and others don't. I bet they spend more money trying to defeat them than they make. A billion Chinese probably had a copy before we did and not one paid for one copy.
are you having problems activating your copy?
What version XP do you have?
The only way to know what these fools *pirates* are up to is to actually get into the gutter with them. AARGG
sometimes you can actually learn a thing or 2 from them, pretty surprising.