WOW--I never imagined my post to cause such debate --lol. Yes the disks were OEM--one disk came withe someones computer, and the other disk that I used from my work was bought separately from a machine as our machines were being built. I do agree that some of the brands might have something embedded that can give issues. Again, I should try the repairs shop disk and see if that yields a different outcome--which by al logic it should--or at least not call the numbers assigned to the machine invalid--at worst bring up the phone support screen. I also will try all the disks on a very old laptop that is now running linux just because I am curious. I do so love the windows 98 days, my choice of preference. I do fine with that machine except for a few web pages. In 98 I have to use Opera for yahoo and hotmail over IE or Avant as those chug. Now you guys are moving onto Windows 8 Questions. To be that OS looks so much like windows 3.11.
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Subject: RE: REINSTALL XP
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:42:36 -0500
Thank you all for your thoughts. I too was under the impression that any XP did would work for repairs so I thought it would work for install as well since I did not change any hardware and am inputting the numbers that were part of that machine. Since with two different XP disks that I had tried came many years apart--2004 and 2008 with it saying invalid code, whereas normally the install of a correct generation disk would at least offer guidance toward phone support. I wound up just putting linux on that box since that machine is only used for internet access.
Interestingly I spoke to a guy at a repair shop that did have an xp pro disk--when I looked at it, it had a folder that was not on my other two versions and the folder was --$$. Perhaps the disks are made differently for repair shops. Also people say that Dells can be fickle when it comes to the priorityness of them--perhaps if I tried on a different machine the outcome would be different. I have a Toshiba laptop--very old that I am going to try a disk on and see what happens just for the heck of it. This is one so old that the sticker gave the option of win 2000 or XP.
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Subject: REINSTALL XP
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 13:21:27 -0500
Hi,
I have a question about a Dell machine running XP.
Machine is about 7 years old and the owner does not have his disk any longer
I tried to put my xp disk into the machine, and it did start to install everything, however when I put in the xp numbers on the side of his machine, it said those numbers are invalid. I thought that you could use any xp disk as long as you use the same numbers without changing any hardware? Do i need to use an older disk, one made during the years of his computer. I know I have disks with sp 2 and some with sp3, on them.
Thanks in advance
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