XP setup incomplete and stuck.

[AIDSMcGuff]

I just got a laptop with Vista installed, so I wanted to dual-boot XP for obvious reasons. I found my XP booklet thing that has the product key and the CD, but I lost my CD. I downloaded XP and burned it. I figured it would be legal since I bought XP. But it turns out the setup is OEM and my Product key isn't accepted. I tryed to go back into vista, but it only keeps taking me back to the XP setup. I changed where to boot from and I changed it to the hard drive and XP still kept coming up. I even took out the CD. So now I am stuck in XP setup and I searched for solutions and I can't find anything. I just want to erase all of XP now. (I am using my main PC now.)

[shunshuu]

I bet you still have AIM on your main PC, send me a message when you get back online.

[Crynsos]

Just try to press F8 a few times before the computer picks the system to boot from, then you should be able to log in into vista and just delete the XP files you installed... and you should get a key or something these days when buying a PC with Vista, I heard Microsoft made it somehow possible for all Vista Users to downgrade, so maybe look around...