I have original XP CD. How can I determine if its volume media

[Andrew]

My company has an enterprise agreement. For this each month I recieve
CDs from Microsoft.

The one we have been using is a rather old green printed edition. It
does not have SP1 or SP2 intergrated. But we have slipstreamed it with
SP2

We are going around in circles with licencing. I have a licence from
Microsoft that includes an enrollment number (ONLY USED FOR REFERENCE)
and of course a licence number.

We are about to use Ghost v7.5 to capture an image. Up until know the
other people I have worked with have all managed to get licencing
errors. I mostly put this down to not running Sysprep correctly,
although they assure me they did !

Anyway after reading
ArticleID: 299840
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299840

I now want to know if I am using volume media (even though I have an
enterprise agreement)

Hlp plz

 

[Guest]

Why don't you call your microsoft representative and they can look up the
details of your agreement and also advise if they can supply update media.

As for a 'ghosted' image. This works if every machine is pretty much the
same.

According to my understanding you can change any three of the 10 items used to
generate the hardware key except the network card which for some reason is
worth three. The 10 hardware characteristics used to determine the hardware
hash are:
1. Display Adapter,
2. SCSI Adapter,
3. IDE Adapter,
4. Network Adapter MAC Address,
5. RAM Amount Range (i.e. 0-64mb, 64-128mb, etc),
6. Processor Type,
7. Processor Serial Number,
8. Hard Drive Device,
9. Hard Drive Volume Serial Number,
10. CD-ROM/CD-RW/DVD-ROM

Changing a hard drive appears to count as two devices. "Hard Drive
Device, and Hard Drive Volume Serial Number".

 

[Darrell Gorter[MSFT]]

Hello Andrew,
On the cd in the i386 folder there is a file ( setupp.ini) open it.
on the PID= line it should read like this PID=xxxxx270
if those three digits are 270 it's volume media.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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[Andrew]

Thanks Darrell.

I am sure that answer will help a lot of people...

It would be good if Microsoft ammended their article to include this

Hello Andrew,
On the cd in the i386 folder there is a file ( setupp.ini) open it.
on the PID= line it should read like this PID=xxxxx270
if those three digits are 270 it's volume media.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
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My company has an enterprise agreement. For this each month I recieve
CDs from Microsoft.

The one we have been using is a rather old green printed edition. It
does not have SP1 or SP2 intergrated. But we have slipstreamed it with
SP2

We are going around in circles with licencing. I have a licence from
Microsoft that includes an enrollment number (ONLY USED FOR REFERENCE)
and of course a licence number.

We are about to use Ghost v7.5 to capture an image. Up until know the
other people I have worked with have all managed to get licencing
errors. I mostly put this down to not running Sysprep correctly,
although they assure me they did !

Anyway after reading
ArticleID: 299840
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299840

I now want to know if I am using volume media (even though I have an
enterprise agreement)

Hlp plz