The reason the seller probably said that is that it has partial truth. Many vendors have Backup CDs sent out with their computers, these CDs contain everything needed for the operating system to work immediately, but the usual downfall is that the drivers are customized to the hardware of that machine. I had a heck of a time changing my notebook from WinXP to Win2K Pro because I had no drivers disks for my hardware, I had to basically gundeck installing all of the drivers and trick my computer. So the problem with the CDs the guy is selling is probably proprietary hardware drivers that would only work on a similar dell system to the one he got it from.
Plus its illegal for anyone to sell OEM versions of Operating systems I believe unless they include the hardware it came with. Charles R King [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galatek Incorporated/Wanderers Haven -----Original Message----- From: Tim Burgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 7:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] Windows XP editions Hello, I'm wanting to upgrade from Win98 to XP in order to install VMWare to test my sites in. I'm looking to buy a second-hand unused version that came bundled with a DELL computer. The seller says that this XP CD can only be installed on a Dell computer is this true?? This is talked about on the Dell Forums [1]. I didn't understand very much. Can someone please clarify this for me. [1] <http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://forums.us .dell.com/supportforums/board/message%3Fboard.id%3DEspPGenSW%26message.id%3D 101&prev=/language_tools> Copy & Paste the above link into browser. Regards Tim Burgan ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
