Re: Legal Installation of XP versus "Hard Disk Loading

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Larry Samuels wrote:
Any OEM system builder can, but it's not worth the hassle. You have
to buy your licenses in bulk lots, and you have to have your
motherboards "tattooed" to use BIOS locking.

PS:As a small OEM the greatest value I can offer my customers is fully
customized systems. The catch 22 with that is the fact I am
specifically forbidden by my licensing agreement from creating
recovery disks (even if the customer requests it) unless I have a SLP
agreement. All systems must be sold with original OEM or Retail box
media--including used systems that are traded in.


I sometimes include a recovery option with Ghost or Acronis True Image and a
hidden partition for customers. It could also be done to CD or DVD if they
wished but it may be harder to automate the process for them. It's a great
value add for very little cost (< $100.00) to the customer. They also have
the option of updating the recovery image when they add new software or
hardware. I don't see any reason that creating recovery disks with 3rd party
software is against the OEM licence as long as the customer has a license
for the 3rd party software as well. Of course they also get the OEM Windows
CD so the Windows license is covered.

--
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


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