A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error code: 0x80004005

That little message is giving me fits. What seemed conceptually to be an incredibly simple task (upgrading XP Home to Pro) has turned into an incredible time suck, with a STOP (aka BSOD) message during installation, a suspicious-looking installation CD, and a welcome screen that plays the start-up sound, throws that error, and then plays the shutdown sound.

Fortunately, have FDISK. Take that, error message.

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