At 04:00 PM 25/06/2006, Wayne Johnson wrote:
I've seen regular OEM work but only if the CD is not locked to the hardware. If regular OEM CDs didn't work then how would any retail CD work ? I believe he's stating that a Dell restore CD didn't work on a Compaq & that I would expect even if he found the Compaq CD key.
Oops. I thought he used a Dell XP CD on a Compaq. Clearly a recovery CD from one company or computer model wouldn't work on a different model or company.
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