Re: xp install dilemma for mumpty ibm x40 user
- From: "DL" <address@invalid>
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:13:08 -0000
Its not MS but the way manufacturers choose to sell their PC's
If the manufacturer supplied a full retail edition of the o/s it would be
more expensive to the buyer
"m" <yourdisplayname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks DL.
I feared that might be the case. so i effectively have this microsoft xp
license that i bought with the samsung machine that is now worthless
because
i can't port the software elsewhere.
microsoft can't be that hard up that they have to squeeze single digit
licence sales out of poor berks who have to buy second hand IT equipment,
surely? i presume that's why the software is designed to work on only one
machine? and they used to say that the advantage of PCs were that they
were
built on open specs. its enough to make me install linux, only that's
probably going to be just as much a pain in the derier.
bah. i have a legit copy of xp already. i could buy another, but i can't
afford to.
m.
"DL" wrote:
Its probable that your samsung version of winxp is bios locked to the
origonal PC therefore it wont install on a different PC
You need to buy yourself a winxp cd, a generic oem version would be the
cheapest, but when your IBM dies so does your winxp cd
"m" <yourdisplayname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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please help a poor mumpty who can't install his o/s
here's the problem:
second-hand ibm laptop - turns out the version of XP on it is beta. so
Windows Update doesn't work. (ironically enough, i need to update the
update
software so i can download updates, but update tells me it can't do
that
because i've got an incompatible version of xp).
so i need to install a new version of XP. i have a disc copy, that came
with
my last computer, a Samsung X10.
the IBM x40 doesn't have a CD drive, but i have an external USB drive.
however, because (i presume) the xp on the machine is beta, when i try
and
run windows setup from the samsung disc it says that i've got an
incompatible
version of xp and so won't run.
i could perhaps wipe the hard drive and do a clean install from the
samsung
disc, but if i do that, will the laptop be able to read the usb disc
drive?
please help. my head hurts.
m.
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