Old laptop with XP Media Ed 2005, will generic XP OEM work?
January 27th, 2020
I’m reformatting laptop for friend but notice on the serial label it says “media edition 2005”. It’s a HP C300 and I was hoping to just use generic OEM ISO.
Does anyone know if the key on the laptop would work with generic OEM ISO version or would it only work with Media Edition 2005 version?
If anyone can link me to ISO which will work (and has SP updates too if possible) it’d be amazing!
cheers
No the key for media edition and generic one is different.
Ah noo, thanks for the reply anyway! need to find somewhere to get Media edition 2005 so. I guess if I get Media edition 2005, it doesn’t matter what service pack, that the key will still be ok?
EDIT: That’s wird actually, in System Properties it says “MS Windows XP, MEDIA center edition versions 2002, service pack 3″ but on the back of the laptop it says version 2005???