Windows XP - eBay laptop purchase and o/s failed validation

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I'm helping out a friend and now I need help.  The friend purchased a Compaq laptop from eBay. 

 

Installing a USB wireless adapter in the laptop and decided to also do the Microsoft security updates and load a anti-virus since it didn't have one.  The updates went to the validation of the software and it has failed.  There is a MS product key on the

bottom that is easily readable.  The windows xp update product key did not work. 

 

I then noticed the key is for XP Home Edition.  The laptop had XP Pro installed.  I have a dusty copy of XP Home Edition (I'm running only Win 7) from a long gone PC.  Can I use it and the key on the bottom of the laptop?   My copy has a product key on the

box.  Really hate to re-install but that is the case.

Does Digital River have a copy of XP Home Edition I can get?

 

The laptop does not meet the specs for even Vista.

 

Thanks from me and him. 

 

Darryl

 

 

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