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david301261 · #1 Post by **david301261** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 4:30 pm

hi laptop newbie here bought an x20 from ebay minus keyboard hard drive docking station operating system have managed to sorce most parts apart from hard drive bought a legal unregistered xp pro disc that is usually supplied with a new dell computer can anyone tell me if it should be ok just to install on to hard drive when i get it or will i hit any problems cheers in advance

Blake · #2 Post by **Blake** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 7:23 pm

i think dell might use their own copy of xp? not sure, i know i had issues when i was upgradeing a friends hp a while back.

i might have a 40gig drive for sale, and i DO have some ram if you are intrested

AKD · #3 Post by **AKD** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 12:31 am

Should be fine, although dont know from legality aspect. I have installed many dell shipped xp home editions on non dell pc's without any prob...

ishinryu · #4 Post by **ishinryu** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:28 am

I think the software issue is a messy one. MS has a deal with Dell to provide Windows at a discount for bulk purchases. Both parties benefit. Most OEMs will produce tailored CDs containing additional gui and drivers for the hardware it is sold with. It should work for any pc but it may have built-in security measures - try it and see.

Bob Collins · #5 Post by **Bob Collins** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:15 am

david301261 wrote: unregistered xp pro disc that is usually supplied with a new dell computer can anyone tell me if it should be ok just to install on to hard drive when i get it or will i hit any problems cheers in advance

Not sure about the legal issues, but I know that when I had to rebuild a workstation at my office, I grabbed a Dell cd from the library versus the correct cd for that system. When the BIOS completed the cd spun up and then informed me that I was to install this copy of windows onto Dell hardware only and then quit. Seems it reads BIOS info prior to install.....

david301261 · #6 Post by **david301261** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:32 pm

Just to let you know I have installed dell xp disk no problem onto my x20 windows website accepted activation first time thanks to all who replied to my post cheers

tradbourne · #7 Post by **tradbourne** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:42 pm

Did you have the CD-Rom in the slice or did you load OS from an external USB attached CD-Rom?

Tim

tradbourne · #8 Post by **tradbourne** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:53 pm

Did you have the CD-Rom in the slice or did you load OS from an external USB attached CD-Rom?

Tim

david301261 · #9 Post by **david301261** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 2:59 am

I used a docking station with a dvd rom installed in bay when booting up I opted to boot from rom instead of hard drive and it was plain sailing from there

david301261 · #10 Post by **david301261** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 3:00 am

I used a docking station with a dvd rom installed in bay when booting up I opted to boot from rom instead of hard drive and it was plain sailing from there

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