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winxp oem install question

hans007

Lifer
Feb 1, 2000
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anyone know if this would work. i am borrowing a DELL oem winxp home cd. Ii'm figuring this is the standard OEM since Dell usually just has that. Anyways... i have an HP with a win xp home license, but it has a restore disk only.

so is it probably that using the dell CD and putting it in the HP and then using my HP winxp home key, that i can install a clean install, without having to install all that other crap from the restore disk?
 

Mitzi

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Aug 22, 2001
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As an educated guess, I'd say the OEM Dell WinXP disc will only run on Dell machines - I think it would check the BIOS or something.