If you have a preinstalled version of windows, in this case win xp sp1, and you get a major boot failure, but can get to the installation point where it asks you to insert your win xp cd, can you use any win xp sp1 disc. If it is a win xp sp1 OEM disc will this prevent you from doing a clean install. :?:

thanks in advance.

How are you doing Tuatha :wave:

An OEM XP disk can only be used with the machine that it was purchased for. The CD is basically "married" to the system. Did you do any hardware changes? This page lists the hardware that an OEM disk checks for before you can proceed with the set up. Maybe someone knows workarounds for this...but I sure don't.

http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.php

Originally Posted by T_D_D

If you have a preinstalled version of windows, in this case win xp sp1, and you get a major boot failure, but can get to the installation point where it asks you to insert your win xp cd, can you use any win xp sp1 disc. If it is a win xp sp1 OEM disc will this prevent you from doing a clean install. :?:

thanks in advance.

this should answer all questions:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

There is no way to do a restore without being able to boot fully into windows?


-Jim

I thought you could do one off of a Windows XP CD.

Originally Posted by adb22791

I thought you could do one off of a Windows XP CD.

You mean like if you had an OEM machine, that you could install a regular (non OEM) version of Windows on to that machine?? I don't know the answer to that, but it does make sense.