It's XP Home (Dell edition). Naturally I don't have any additional copies to give away. What do I do (that doesn't involve piracy/buying a new copy of XP Home)?
Oops. (Windows licensing question. Do Dell S/N's work with normal OEM copies?)
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Would Dell perhaps send me another copy? I still have the license sticker, I just need the damned CD.
Yes, I'm aware of that beautifully awesome caveat of the WinNT licensing scheme, but the last time I tried (Win2k) a normal OEM copy would not take a Dell serial number (wtf?)
I suspect foul play - a whole f'ing stack of 20 SP2 CD's is missing as well, and they were both sitting in a (fairly) public place (an associate's office desk) at the time they went missing. He was with me.
Obviously, this is the last time I'm going to be taking customer equipment to a third party site so I can double up on work.
you mean a normal RETAIL copy? AFAIK Retail, OEM, and Corporate are the only three subdivisions of WinXP (not talking Home vs. Pro vs. Media Center).
Retail and OEM share a common serial number pool.
Not sure why the Dell SN's didn't work back in the day. MAYBE they do now, can anyone confirm before I make a REALLY big mistake and reformat this thing only to be unable to use the S/N.
Corp is a different product altogether (Windows VLK, technically, one step above Pro)
I'm pretty sure they don't...I have a nice 6-in-1 CD of XP that allowed me to use a friends' CD-key when reinstalling Windows on his computer, when the retail disk he had didn't accept it.
I have that 6-in-1 package as well. Which package on the CD *DID* accept it, so I don't waste 6 hours trying them all?
I have that 6-in-1 package as well. Which package on the CD *DID* accept it, so I don't waste 6 hours trying them all?[/quote]
I'm pretty sure it was XP Home OEM version. Good luck.
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I *DO*, coincidentally, have a Dell XP *PRO* CD that I'd willingly give this lady, but the machine it was attached to was destroyed, and I didn't keep the serial (oops?)
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I tried to put the Dell serial number from my Dimension 4600 on another computer, but it didn't work. I had upgraded from XP Home to XP Pro on that system and wanted to use XP Home on another box. I even tried key changers to see if it would accept, but it didn't. Oh well. Good luck! 
Originally posted by: Kaido
I tried to put the Dell serial number from my Dimension 4600 on another computer, but it didn't work. I had upgraded from XP Home to XP Pro on that system and wanted to use XP Home on another box. I even tried key changers to see if it would accept, but it didn't. Oh well. Good luck!
WinXP: Dell Edition. Typical. This is going to suck. Badly. Apparently I *NEED* to find that CD.
I'm not going to be using a retail CD, I'll be using an OEM CD - one that's Microsoft branded rather than Dell branded.
If I can't track that CD down tommorrow, I don't see that I have any other choice, really.
Edit; Who am I kidding? The thing is out of warranty, and nobody there speaks english. That'll be an utter waste of time.
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