JeffA54

I see that I still have a lot to learn since I'm pretty much a newbie. I had no clue about sysprep/replication nor am I versed in creating a recovery partition. Thanks to both or you for helping me out with this.

Thank you for your insight. Again, I don't wish to cause any problems. I'm a self-taught support person here and if it helps, these pc's will be given to employees, first-come-first-served, no profit to store/company. We had to upgrade our system to Win7 because of software security since xp won't be supported. The pc's are old (7 - 10 years) and rather than e-waste, the decision was to do a clean reinstall for the give-away. The disks I can find are Dell reinstallation with a P/N (a couple had "factory refurbished" with Product Key), not a Product Key. My thought was to give the recipient a xp sp3 reinstall disk and basic driver disk Re the sysprep/replication....i like that idea but I'm not sure it will work on the different dells (GL170, GX330, GX380 - 790). I'll also look into a WPI disk. Believe me, there are other things I'd rather be doing. So....am I inappropriate in what I am doing? If so, I'll find another way.

First, please accept my apology. My ethics would stop me from consciously causing a problem. My project is to refurbish about 20 Dell pc's in the next couple of weeks as give-aways in our small company (we upgraded). Some software disks are missing and starting from reinstallation cd -> windows updates will just take forever and I thought this would be perfect. How do I attach the zip folder or would you just prefer I list what's in it. I really don't want to cause anyone any problems.

So hypothetically, if I were to use a single Dell Restore CD on several pc's that we were possibly thinking of giving away free to friends, the cd uses the same pk thus all those pc's have that pk are in violation of the EULA, correct? Would it also cause an issue with the pc's at some point? And would you like me to attach this hypothetical list here or PM you?

I don't doubt that I might have made a mistake, but I thought I followed the directions. It installed along with updating IE8, etc. How large should the disk be? With the UDC, mine is 632mb's and there were 146 misc updates extracted. I tried it again on a fresh pc and after the install, there were 38 important; 16 optional software plus .NET3.5. I installed 3.5 and subsequently .NET 4.0, afterwhich there were a total of 51 important, 16 opt software, then .NET 1.1. 68 total is far better than the 140ish if I didn't slipstream, so thank you!! Also, if i'm using this one generic Dell XPP SP3 disk on several Dell pc's, will there be any product key issues? None is asked for.

Hi. I need to refurbish several WinXP-Pro pc's. We use Dell Optiplex and I have a Dell WinXP-Pro SP3 disk. I've used this disk on a couple of pc's and would like to try slipstreaming. Will there be any issues with the pc product key since I will use this Dell re-install disk to create the slipstream?

Hi. Newbie here. I used the UDC 2.14.14 which worked wonderfully. After completing the full slipstream, I checked for more WU's and received a total of about 80 more. I get that MS continues to put them out and I'm not complaining....just wondering if there will be a newer version of the UDC anytime soon.