superdave1984
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OK, this PC had been hit by lightening and it killed the network card. Shortly after that the onboard video crapped out, then it just wouldn't boot just kept in the loop of splash screen, reboot. Customer does not have an XP MCE disk but tried to do a repair install with an XP Pro disk (not hers). Repair went fine until product key time. The product key that is on the machine did not work nor did the key on the XP Pro disk. Now I have this thing and she really doesn't want to lose the data on the HD. I am thinking her best bet would be to slave the drive, move the data, format and start fresh. But given the earlier issues and things that have been tried, what are the odds that the data is still good? It is stuck on the product key page now and when I shut it down and restart it goes back into setting up windows mode.