Windows XP Home "ULCPC" Reinstall

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I need to reinstall Windows XP Home on a customer's 2GoPC netbook.

The COA indicates it's the XP Home ULCPC (ultra low cost personal computer) edition - which I've not seen before.

Does anyone know if the license is different from the usual Win XP Home? That is, will the license fail if I reinstall using a stock XP Home?

 

[Kitten Kong]

To be completely honest, I had never heard of a ulpc edition before. After googling it, I think the xp home cd will not work.

There are a number of torrents available for this edition. Unless my eyes are deceiving me, I can't even see this edition on technet either!.

If you do go the torrent way though, I would check the md hash. I'm pretty sure this would be publicly available somewhere.

 

[Robert]

Why not just image the HDD and give it a shot? I've had some strange combinations of keys/disc's that have activated OK over the years...

 

[TLE]

Looks like you can order a restore disc from them for a small fee.

I don't have my restore CD!
No problem, we can send you a spare restore CD for just $5.
To get a restore cd, send an email to support@2gopc.com. Include the following details in your email:
Name
Address
City, State, Zip Code
Amazon or CTL order number
Amazon Part number (If Applicable)

http://www.2gopc.com/2Go_FAQ.html

 

[DCGPX]

Can you run the original ULPC version? If so cant you test by booting the XP Home OEM cd in windows and selecting upgrade then entering the ULPC key and if it accepts, cancel the installer.

Should let you know if it'll accept their key.

 

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The hard drive is complete toast, so I can't boot up. It's one of those little 30gb Toshiba drives with a ZIF connector rather than sata. I don't keep any of those sitting around, so I couldn't even throw a temporary drive in to test the install.

Thanks TLE for the restore CD link - I'll just go that route and remove the uncertainty.

Thanks to all that responded!

 

[16k_zx81]

I thought it would be useful to the community to round off this thread, as no doubt the question will arise again.

I have an Aspire One with a XP HOME ULPC COE. I put a sysprepped universal image onto it @ XP HOME OEM. It accepted the ULPC License key, and activated online with it.

So the short answer to your question, based on this example, is yes you can use an OEM image or disk to restore to a machine with a ULPC key.

 

[NYJimbo]

I know this thread is over a year old but I had some info that might help someone in the future.

We got an Asus EEEPC 1005HAB in for virus work and it ended up we needed to reinstall XP. The "recovery partition" was gone or damaged and would not work so we tried an OEM install of XP home but then the COA on the bottom was a ASUS XP HOME ULCPC and it would not work. It would come up with a immediate request to activate but not work online or provide a alphanumeric string for the telephone activation. I know you can do some fooling around with a special disk setup to get working but I was in no mood to start prepping a disk or doing some kind of slipstreaming. I remembered I had an "HP/Compaq XP HOME for ULTRA LOW COST PERSONAL COMPUTERS with service pack 3" disk and figured, what the heck.

The thing installed perfectly, allowed for rebooting and all kinds of updates. It kept telling me to activate so I finally did and it failed (probably some kind of HP/Compaq system poking) and told me to key in the COA. So I took the ASUS coa on the bottom , put it in and it activated fine and has been running ever since, including 110+ updates. There is no bloatware from this install, just looks like a pure XP install perhaps with HP/Compaq related drivers INCLUDING the more advanced SATA stuff that fails on so many reinstalls on older machines which is what this ASUS needed, it didn't want the F6 added drivers as it said the ones on the HP/Compaq XP were newer.

Just wanted to note that if you have a HP/Compaq or other ULCPC version of XP and need one for a different netbook maker, give it a try and it will probably work. I will be trying this on a Toshiba netbook this weekend that also needs XP ULCPC and will post more if I can.

 

[ClickRight]

I know this thread is over a year old but I had some info that might help someone in the future.

We got an Asus EEEPC 1005HAB in for virus work and it ended up we needed to reinstall XP. The "recovery partition" was gone or damaged and would not work so we tried an OEM install of XP home but then the COA on the bottom was a ASUS XP HOME ULCPC and it would not work. It would come up with a immediate request to activate but not work online or provide a alphanumeric string for the telephone activation. I know you can do some fooling around with a special disk setup to get working but I was in no mood to start prepping a disk or doing some kind of slipstreaming. I remembered I had an "HP/Compaq XP HOME for ULTRA LOW COST PERSONAL COMPUTERS with service pack 3" disk and figured, what the heck.

The thing installed perfectly, allowed for rebooting and all kinds of updates. It kept telling me to activate so I finally did and it failed (probably some kind of HP/Compaq system poking) and told me to key in the COA. So I took the ASUS coa on the bottom , put it in and it activated fine and has been running ever since, including 110+ updates. There is no bloatware from this install, just looks like a pure XP install perhaps with HP/Compaq related drivers INCLUDING the more advanced SATA stuff that fails on so many reinstalls on older machines which is what this ASUS needed, it didn't want the F6 added drivers as it said the ones on the HP/Compaq XP were newer.

Just wanted to note that if you have a HP/Compaq or other ULCPC version of XP and need one for a different netbook maker, give it a try and it will probably work. I will be trying this on a Toshiba netbook this weekend that also needs XP ULCPC and will post more if I can.

Intersting, good to note down--Will be interesting to see about the Toshiba!

Further to your update, we did a reinstall on an Acer Aspire One Netbook a few weeks ago. It had the ULCPC Edition of XP home and we used our Windows Home OEM with SP3 integrated disk. It installed and activated with no problems whatseover!

 

[NYJimbo]

Further to your update, we did a reinstall on an Acer Aspire One Netbook a few weeks ago. It had the ULCPC Edition of XP home and we used our Windows Home OEM with SP3 integrated disk. It installed and activated with no problems whatseover!

That's what was weird about this install, the OEM disk would not work but the ULCPC did, just needed to put in the COA from the ASUS.