jhoppe

Thanks for the reply! I've run into this a few times...Sony and Compaq to be exact. Supposedly, in one of the i386 files, the pid is going to reflect the number given to Dell, HP, etc. and a regular OEM would not work... Am I missing something???? I only WISH my OEM media worked EVERY time!

Forgive me if I am posting what is already here, but I have been searching the forums (and google!) to find an answer to this question. I have an OEM XP Home CD and when a client comes to me with a Dell PC or an HP PC, etc. with XP Home loaded onto it, but needs it to be rebuilt, how would I be able to make a copy of my XP Home OEM CD, and make it into a bootable Dell XP Home OEM CD, that WILL prompt and accept the key on the COA... I've read all of the 'you have to modify the pid value, blah blah', but is that the way to correctly do this?