[YLUG] old machine?

[Chris Hardy]

if they're Dell OEM discs, they won't work on anything other than Dell 
machines

i tried to rebuild a fujitsu machine with one - told me where to stick it.
Ended up using a dodgey copy of XP, and then changed the serial code to 
make it 'legit' again

c


Charles Forsyth wrote:
>>  there are all the
>> original Windows XP OEM discs if reversion to Windows was needed.
>>     
>
> if someone is interested in the machine but doesnt't want the Windows discs i'd
> have a use for those.  (it turns out that the handful of dead thinkpads
> i'd built up had recovery partitions but not installation discs,
> and so i can't install windows on a replacement desktop machine i'd bought
> for testing a portable application under windows.)
>
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