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From: Derek on 13 Sep 2005 18:19 Is is possible to do a repair install of Windows XP with an operating system disk that is not the same as the originally installed OS? I am trying to help a friend with a problem and would like to try a repair install, but they have lost (or can't find) the OS disk that came with the computer. I am wondering if I could use mine. Thanks in advance for any help anyone could offer.
From: Carey Frisch [MVP] on 13 Sep 2005 18:26 No, you cannot use yours. Your friend needs to contact the manufacturer of his or her computer and request a replacement. The Product Key (license) affixed to your friends computer will only work with the computer manufacturer's recovery CD. -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Microsoft Newsgroups ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Derek" wrote: | Is is possible to do a repair install of Windows XP with an operating system | disk that is not the same as the originally installed OS? I am trying to | help a friend with a problem and would like to try a repair install, but they | have lost (or can't find) the OS disk that came with the computer. I am | wondering if I could use mine. Thanks in advance for any help anyone could | offer.
From: Rock on 13 Sep 2005 23:37 Derek wrote: > Is is possible to do a repair install of Windows XP with an operating system > disk that is not the same as the originally installed OS? I am trying to > help a friend with a problem and would like to try a repair install, but they > have lost (or can't find) the OS disk that came with the computer. I am > wondering if I could use mine. Thanks in advance for any help anyone could > offer. Yes if it's the same type, just use their CD key. By type I mean Pro vs. Home, OEM vs. Retail, upgrade vs. full. If it's computer OEM install like Dell or Gateway you have to use the same OEM disk. -- Rock MS MVP Windows - Shell/User
From: -rwxrw-r-- on 14 Sep 2005 12:34 On Tuesday 13 September 2005 03:26 pm, Carey Frisch [MVP] had this to say in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: > No, you cannot use yours. Your friend needs to contact the > manufacturer of his or her computer and request a replacement. > The Product Key (license) affixed to your friends computer will > only work with the computer manufacturer's recovery CD. > And what in the OP's post leads you to think he's even talking about a "computer manufacturer's recovery CD"? It could be any version of Windoze he has there. You don't know and he wasn't specific. -- Now this is Eye-Candy! Most beautiful desktop in the world. Checkout ELive - a live Linux CD - run R17 http://www.elivecd.org/gb/About/index.html
From: Asher_N on 14 Sep 2005 13:03
-rwxrw-r-- <nostop(a)stopspam.com> wrote in news:riYVe.197902$Hk.131341(a)pd7tw1no: > On Tuesday 13 September 2005 03:26 pm, Carey Frisch [MVP] had this to > say in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: > >> No, you cannot use yours. Your friend needs to contact the >> manufacturer of his or her computer and request a replacement. >> The Product Key (license) affixed to your friends computer will >> only work with the computer manufacturer's recovery CD. >> > > And what in the OP's post leads you to think he's even talking about a > "computer manufacturer's recovery CD"? It could be any version of > Windoze he has there. You don't know and he wasn't specific. > > Because 'recovery CD' implies the set of disk that resets a computer to it's 'as shipped' condition, including Windows and all other software pre- installed by the manufacturer. Those CDs only coe from the major manufactuers and are locked to a particular model and config. |