Re: Reinstall WindowsXP

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:08:23 -0600

MP wrote:
> A colleauge wants to reinstall WindowsXP. However, we have several
> WindowsXP CDs (one for each PC). Behind each PC there is a sticker
> with the product key. How do we identify which CD matches with the
> WindowsXP on my colleague's PC?

If it is a sticker n the PC, likely an OEM.
Any OEM XP CD should work, unless the copies of OEM CDs you have are BIOS
locked - which is - in my exerience - rare. 

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