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post #21 of 24
5/16/05 at 12:33am
The restore CD is a Regular OEM professional/home disk except for a return in the install that looks for a Dell bios and then automatically activates it. If it does not find the bios it will require activation with an OEM COA. So you can install the CD or the one created by the dell utility on the Computer to install windows XP and then use the cd key on the bottom of the laptop to install it on your regular pc. If you owned an old dell with a 9x OS you could reinstall WinXP without having to activate.
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post #22 of 24
5/22/05 at 2:10pm
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Originally Posted by Freak4Dell
Your laptop should come with a convenient utility to burn a XP CD. This will be the original XP CD, and willnot include all the extra stuff from Dell. You can do a clean install with this CD, or with the CD that you buy. Or, you can have Dell ship a CD to you. Be warned, though. The burned CD will only work on Dell computers, and so will the CD that Dell ships you. If you have another computer that is not Dell, you will need to buy a copy of Windows XP, which is what you would need to do anyway, if you wanted to do everything legally.
Has anyone actually used the cd that you burn to do a re-install? Since I have a CD coming from Dell, it sounds like I can use one cd from Dell on one computer (they are both Dells) and the burned cd on the other? What about the activation code? It did not give me one when I burned the cd. My other question is, on my old desktop (Dimension 8100) I upgraded to XP home soon after I got it. Do you think there will be any issue installing one of the cd's to this machine after a re-format?
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post #23 of 24
5/22/05 at 3:20pm
Your key in general will match your software. Pro disk needs a Pro key and so on. Is everyone SURE they are not getting the XP cd from Dell? I got mine and did not even notice it because it was printed to look like one of Dells mass of cd's that ship with a pc. It wasn't untill I flipped the white placard over that I noticed it was not just ANY cd but it was THE cd
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post #24 of 24
5/22/05 at 3:23pm
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Originally Posted by Revenent
Two things:
1. Cheating the system eventually comes back to bite you.
2. You've really got a bad case of conspiracy theory.
If you want to catch a crook, you need to think like a crook, or better yet be a crook yourself.
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