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> I work on a lot of Dells and I've discovered, to my delight, that you
> can frequently use disks from one machine to install an OS or drivers on
> another. It's amazing to me that people don't keep track of these disks,
> but they are very often mislaid. It must not be the license key that's
> included, but some other identifying info. I've heard this is something
> in the BIOS, but don't really know.

I also service Dells (and others) for a living. The Company specific 
installs of Windows usually contain chipset and other drivers that are 
specific to that brand of computer. If you install say an HP branded 
windows on a Dell, you'd have some drivers to fix before it would work.

-- 
Pete McMullen

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