At that point, it's not really a big deal. You say that you did a brain transplant and that you're retiring the old machine or wahtever, and they give you the magic activation code.
Whenever I've had to call to reactivate XP (a couple of times) it's been entirely automated - you dial in a long number, it reads back a long number and it worked fine.
I've had to talk to somebody both times I called. There was no wait time and after explaining about the hard drive crash or retiring the machine they gave me the code without any problem.
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