Will Dell OEM Vista Business DVD work with IBM?

[jiopsi]

Hi,

recently purchased T61 and it has recovery partition deleted. I have Dell OEM installation media, would it work straight up, or could I implement my license code to it?

[jiopsi]

Yippee, activation worked, had to only change the product key.

[ozzymud]

You can make a custom DVD for future use where the key is already changed, check out vLite (nLite for Vista), you can add Multiple certificates to $OEM$\$$\SYSTEM32\OEM folder so it will work for your Dell, IBM, and most other systems you have.

[Easy Wind]

you actually got a Dell OEM disc to work on your Thinkpad? Whenever I've tried using a Dell OEM Windows (re) install disc, it only wanted to work on a Dell machine, and a machine close to the exact model at that.....

[ozzymud]

The key difference would be restore media versus oem install media.

[A31]

Dell discs nearly always work on any machine but the product key will only successfully activate on a Dell machine. So you'd get Windows installed but you'd have to change the product key if you're not on a Dell to get it activated.

[BootSectorVirus]

you actually got a Dell OEM disc to work on your Thinkpad? Whenever I've tried using a Dell OEM Windows (re) install disc, it only wanted to work on a Dell machine, and a machine close to the exact model at that.....

Dell has not had that restriction for years, the last Dell disc I saw do that was Win2K