Each manufacturer, Dell, ACER, Leveno, etc have their own OEM disk 
for every windows operating system. A Dell  XP OEM  (Original 
Equipment Manufacturer) disk will install on any Dell computer that 
originally came with XP. The  operating system authorization is 
within the BIOS of the computer. The Dell OEM disk will check to make 
sure it is being installed on a Dell XP computer, and then will 
proceed with the install.

Mark Rode
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At 06:47 AM 1/15/2013, you wrote:
>This is NOT true. There are different discs, but they are NOT coded to the
>specific key. Apparently there are categories of keys that they ARE specific
>to. I don't know which specific files are affected. In my work at the
>college, we had XP discs that applied to student installs, and other master
>discs for the lab installations. Although the versions of XP were the same,
>the keys were specific to one or the other.
>
>Peter Shkabara
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: V Vishwanathan
>well... not really.Each xp disc is specific to the KEY printed on the
>machine(or the win book) along with which the xp disc came.
>
>So in your case your xp disc KEY is specific to the key printed on YOUR
>MACHINE and not on the other machine
>
>

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