Sunday, July 15, 2012

Would a Dell Windows XP Installation CD work on a Custom made computer?

So as you may be aware, it is possible to automate the installation of a Windows operating system. Basically the "Dell" installation CD is really just Windows XP + specific device drivers embedded into the install process and possibly other Dell specific items. I suspect that you should be able to get through the installation minus device drivers.

With regard to the keys, Home edition and professional will have different keys. otherwise, people would buy the home edition and use the key on professional.

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This is a new one, i don't know if you allready treated something like this, but i want to find a future and better solution. Ok, this is it. I have this windows xp machine at work (P4 3 Ghz, 512MB RAM, 80Gb HDD, VideoOnBoard), friday at 12:00 i try ...

Source: http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/threads/428099/would-a-dell-windows-xp-installation-cd-work-on-a-custom-made-computer

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