Formatted Laptop and Can't Reinstall Hoster

[pcgumshoe]

I have a show tonight (MONDAY) and over the weekend I formatted my HP laptop on account of when I installed XP SP2 I lost internet connectivity and had to revert which messed things up even worse.

When I attempt to reinstall Hoster, from version 2.0 to 2.213 v.3, I get an error saying that I am allowed to install it on two systems only. I only have two systems in my house and the laptop is the systme I was using last Monday.

What Has Changed:
When I bought the laptop originally from Best Buy, it was a floor model, so when I got it home, I reformatted it and installed a different version of Windows XP Pro on it (in other words I didn't use the restore disk) I also wanted to get rid of any unnecessary programs.

When I reformatted the first time this weekend, I used the restore disk and brought it back to the original HP configuration and used the HP site to auto-update all drivers and functionality. I also updated to Windows XP SP2 and everything worked like it should. Then I tried to install Hoster, no go... because of it see's two systems already installed on.

I then reformatted a second time and attempted to return the system to the Windows XP Pro Key that was on the system before (thinking that would make your system see the computer is the same when compared to the hardware components) again no go.

I need the system tonight and I emailed over the weekend. What should I do? I will email again.

It would be helpful to know WHAT we should do to maintain system integrety so that in the future when I (or we) format our systems we can know what to keep the same so your system recongizes it is the same computer... or perhaps have a "TRANSFER LICENSE" button. I own a more expensive piece of software called Sibellius and I have the same two computer license issue. There I can transfer the license between computers by releasing it from one.