What Dell tells you is correct: The Dell Windows CD installs a Dell OEM
version of Windows XP, which requires a "magic string" in the Dell BIOS to
activate.
Even if you manage to extract the OEM license number from your old machine,
you will won't be able to activate.
You could instead try instructions in this thread:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=79336&start=15#p373338
(csmccarron's post of 21. Sep 2016)
The idea is:
- Download "Windows XP Mode" from Microsoft's site, and extract the Windows
XP Mode VHD file.
- Create a new BIOS.BIN according to csmccarron's instructions (there are
other ways to do that as well).
- Install the BIOS.BIN to a new VM, using the VBoxManage setextradata
command here: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/15636
- Boot the XP Mode VHD.
NOTE: Windows XP Mode is only licensed to run as a VM on Windows 7 Pro,
Ultimate and Enterprise.
There is a chance that mucking about with the BIOS DMI info (see chapter
9.12 of the manual) may convince your existing OEM Windows disk to install,
but I have never tried that.
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 12:04 AM, Jim Ellis <ellis...@gvtc.com> wrote:
> I am running Vbox; had it create a XP system from the CD furnished with my
> old computer.
>
> This process has run well with no problems. I run my old software under
> the XP just as
>
> I had on my old computer.
>
> My problem is the XP system keeps telling me that the software needs to be
> activated
>
> within X amount of days or else. Well the CD from Dell has no codes to
> register it
>
> with. According to Dell, the codes are placed in the firmware of the
> computer and is
>
> not available to them. I guess that means the dell computer registered
> itself.
>
> Anyone had this problem and how do you get around it.
>
>
>
>
>
> Jim Ellis
>
> ellis...@gvtc.com
>
>
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