Comments on: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Halts on “Checking Product Key”

By: jt

jt — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:47:17 +0000

Thanks for this fix! You just ended a long day of toil.

By: Jimmy Mac

Jimmy Mac — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:17:55 +0000

Tried to re-install XP after replacing a broken hard drive. Was tearing my hair out, but this fix worked a treat. No need to use safe mode, install worked straight away after following the instructions and rebooting normally. Cheers dude!

By: B1ggles

B1ggles — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:41:48 +0000

Cheers great instuctions. thought my cd was scratched and downloaded the service pack and still got stopped at product key. wish i had googled it first could have used the data for something more usefull like a movie lol

By: Donkey

Donkey — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:16:38 +0000

WOOOOOO Hell Yeah thought I’d never get past that damn Product key bs worked great thanks alot Phil

By: Voytech Computers

Voytech Computers — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:18:57 +0000

Thanks Tons,

I am a fully certified Tech, and i found this blog, spent hours trying to get SP2 to install on an old HP Laptop that needed SP1 in order to accept the HP CD Key. It ran find in native mode, no need to restart in safe mode. Safe mode does not allow Service packs to install through a web browser so this method may irritate people. Other than that a perfect fix.

thanks again

Nick

By: Hakan

Hakan — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:57:16 +0000

@Udai: Thanks, works fine!

By: Carissa

Carissa — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:45:14 +0000

My CMD keeps giving me the message “Invalid switch- /d”. I can’t even get passed this to continue. Please help?

By: LH_Mark

LH_Mark — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:48:39 +0000

Worked! Thanks for the posting. Thanks Paul!

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:47:50 +0000

thannks alot i had this problem for a while nothing worked so i tried your thread and it worked perfectly and easy to follow
thanks you again

By: Tommy

Tommy — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:11:30 +0000

Thanks! Finally got past that block. I missed the safe mode, and did a regular reboot, still worked.

By: Pete Austin

Pete Austin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:48:34 +0000

@Udai: Thanks, works fine! @Microsoft: Please fix your instructions – if you leave a situation where your official product can’t be patched, and fail to explain a workaround, you encourage people to pirate unofficial, but patched, copies of Windows.

By: Herc

Herc — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:45:05 +0000

Just popped out to the off licence and left the update running. Ive come back and just watched it successfully finish. 22.42pm gmt. My laptops restarted and all looks fine:)

Thanks

By: Herc

Herc — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:20:50 +0000

Just inputed what you instructed. Re-booted in safe mode. I had the sp2 file on my desk top but It didnt show in safe mode. I went to search option and found it. This is the best progress yet that I’ve made. Its still doing the update now but I never got this far before. I’ll post again once its done. 22.20pm gmt

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:49:35 +0000

brilliant – after what seems an eternity, i can finally install SP2 – thanks a million!

By: Fullakis

Fullakis — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:07:40 +0000

Worked a treat!!!

By: JoseP

JoseP — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:34:32 +0000

It works. you are the best !!
Thank You .

By: JMosca

JMosca — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:25:28 +0000

Thanks Phil, I did the same thing Udai did and it worked great for my SP2 download from the website. Your fix was the only one that I found that worked!

By: Mwood

Mwood — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:58:32 +0000

awsome fix^^

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:23:54 +0000

Works great in safe mode. Thanks for a great post.

By: ganesh kumar

ganesh kumar — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:27:52 +0000

thanks for ur product