[Question] Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Conversion

[Ralish]

Greetings,

My younger brother got a very nice Dell laptop for his birthday (lucky bastard!), and it came with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, along with the associated license and cd-key. The laptop also came with a copy of the installation media, but unfortunately, not original. A quick look at the installation media shows a massive amount of modifications to it, doing god knows what.

I intend to put a clean installation of Windows XP on the system to erase the massive amount of crap that has come pre-installed on it, and was intending to use the included Media Center Edition 2005 copy. However, I want a "virgin" copy of it without any tampering. As such, I am downloading the original two MSDN ISO's for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.

The problem, is that I am betting the CD-Keys differ between the MSDN and OEM editions. As such, I want to convert the MSDN copy to an OEM copy so I can use the legal CD-key included with the laptop.

Can anyone provide details as to how I might go about doing this? I am new in this area, and don't wish to install a copy of Windows that has had countless settings tampered with, but a clean copy, and this looks like the best method to do so.

Thanks in advance,

Ralish

[neo]

U r try to pirate.......... Be Remember

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[Sonic]

U r try to pirate.......... Be Remember

This is not a warez site! Links/Requests to warez and/or illegal material (porn, cracks, serials, etc..) will not be tolerated. Discussion of circumventing WGA/activation/timebombs/keygens or any other illegal activity will also not be tolerated. You will be banned without notice

I don't consider Ralish as pirate.

MSDN ISO's & Media Center 2005 OEM are legal.

It can make a customized CD with his msdn license or oem license.

To answer at the question I think you can just replace setupp.ini from OEM media to your new "based on MSDN" source.

If it don't accepte key, replace OEMBIOS files too.

[monoxide]

its not piracy if u own the software. im not going to get a new disk from microsoft or dell and pay 20 bucks for some thing i can download for free. as long as he has a legit key it will work.