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I don't know. I just made another slipstream with xp, almost identically to last time, except this time I didn't include ryanvm's wga package. Not sure if it's needed with sp3 anyway? Haven't tried yet though.

I've slipstreamed many times from my dell xp pro sp1a disc. I'm currently trying with sp3, but it's rejecting the key (same xjm6q... key that's on the original disc that worked with sp2). I checked the setupp.ini and it's still oem like it should be. Used the latest version of nlite on a win7 machine. Is there any way to get it to proceed setup? It's for a temporary hard drive while the main is rma'ed, so if it only lasts 14 days, it should be fine. I don't believe pro/vlk would work since the pid is still for oem. Is there an updated dell oem key for xp pro that works with sp3?

I've written instuctions for Building a Pre-activated CD from an existing installation and setup an OEMBIOS Repository. You will need to compress the files with makecab and find a SLP Key. Thanks for that, I'm going to work with it and try to create a few discs in preparation since I don't have the client systems available to me at the moment and don't want to risk not having something that works. I notice a lot of them have strikeout over them. What's that mean? For example, I have a hp laptop to go back and fix the mess I made when I used a vlk install last time (when hdd crashed and original recovery disc were not available). It's from the banias centrino era, if that's of any help. Thanks!

Excellent!!!!! That was exactly what I was looking for. But also a side question. This would probably be asking too much, but any way to transfer wpa files and possibly avoid a reformat? I figure I might as well but just checking

A few years ago, my friend's hp laptop had a hard drive failue, and the hp recovery discs weren't available to me. So I figured since the computer came with a xp pro license anyway, there wouldn't be any ethical issues loading on a corp version I had. It was a valid 640 pid, so I figured it wouldn't ever run into issues. Then wga kicked in and I'm getting complaints from a bunch of people who I've installed clean versions of windows (where they haven't had the recovery discs so I used mine). I also own a dell personally and see how it can skip activation upon checking bios or other dcom flags. I'm imagining that hp is the same way. However, hp wants way too much $$ for a copy of the disc, with out of warranty yada yada. I was wondering if anyone had these files for the hp installs so I could create a xp disc and redo everything more along the lines of the "right" way? Wgaworkarounds are a solution but they're pretty embarrassing to have to deal with it every so often on clients' computers. Thanks for any solutions!!