XP home reinstall

[mike_hunt]

I'm working out a worst case senario with a computer with windows XP
home installed

The computer is currently running an activated OEM copy of xp home with
service pack 1 installed - I cannot find the original disk, however.
What I do have is a DELL disk with service pack 2.
Can I safely repair/ reinstall the o/s using the DELL disk, then change
the serial when I activate windows?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

No. The Dell CD won't work since it is BIOS-locked
for use only on a Dell computer.

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"mike_hunt"wrote:


| I'm working out a worst case senario with a computer with windows XP
| home installed
|
| The computer is currently running an activated OEM copy of xp home with
| service pack 1 installed - I cannot find the original disk, however.
| What I do have is a DELL disk with service pack 2.
| Can I safely repair/ reinstall the o/s using the DELL disk, then change
| the serial when I activate windows?
|

 

[Leythos]

No. The Dell CD won't work since it is BIOS-locked
for use only on a Dell computer.

If it's a Dell Disk with SP2, then I would bet that it's a regular OEM
Windows XP disk and not one of their older BIOS locked CD's. As of the
last year, all of the Windows XP cd's we've seen from Dell have been
non-locked Windows XP OEM CD's, some with a Dell color scheme, some
without, but none have been locked.

 

[Gossypium Cinnamoneus Arubaensis Levivirus]

Leythos, <[email protected]>, the retiring, reeking clotpole, and itinerant

 

[Leythos]

nose.org>, (e-mail address removed)-
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Leythos, <[email protected]>, the retiring, reeking clotpole, and itinerant

LOL, you're not quite as good a PCBUTTS1, but at least you're showing
that I was right about you:

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[Roman Bartyzel]

If it's a Dell Disk with SP2, then I would bet that it's a regular OEM

<HACK>

More guess work then, eh, you liar? That fence of yours must be half way up
your arse by now, huh?

 

[Gopalakrishnan-ben Mukhopadhyay]

<[email protected]
nose.org>, (e-mail address removed)-
discredited-boar-pig.org says...

LOL, you're not quite as good a PCBUTTS1, but at least you're showing
that I was right about you:

<snort>

You haven't been right about anything yet. When you are, I'll tell you.

You seem a bit upset, so do try not to beat up the wife and kids too much
when they get back from shopping for you.

 

[Reverend Woodward Blimmerville-Puddlekock]

im 16 and im a gay male. me n my bf hav bin arguin alot lately because
hes got trouble with debt. he takes it all out on me and has even
stopped sleeping with me. im the only one who sticks by him but its me
that gets the s**t from him. why?

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Mike

What is the make and model of the computer?

Why do you want to reinstall / repair. Might not there be another way to
resolve your unstated problem?

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Hope this helps.

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