The rules: If your XP product key is from an OEM license you must use an OEM CD to re-install.
If your XP product key is from a retail license you must use a retail CD to re-install. If your XP product key is from XP Home you must use an XP Home CD to re-install. If your XP product key is from XP Pro you must use an XP Pro CD to re-install. A slipstreamed CD carries the OEM or retail and Home or Pro status of the original used to make it. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of BobJohns Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SlipStream SP2 Wayne the reason I originally asked is because when I needed to do a re-install after a system crash a friend loaned me an XP Pro disk that he had slipstreamed using SP2. His original copy was a retail one that already had SP1 included when he purchased it. When I tried to use it my original serial would not work. I don't know if this was a mistake in the making of the disk or not. In any event I used my original disk to do the install and just updated with SP2 as I had downloaded it when it was first was released. It just makes me wonder why my original key did not work with his copy. Thanks to all who have responded. Bob J. Guam U.S.A. At03:35 AM 4/26/2006, Wayne Johnson wrote the following message: ==-==-==-==-== Begin Quoted Message ==-==-==-==-== > >At 10:07 AM 4/25/2006, Rick Glazier typed: >>Look at the disk label(s) in Explorer, and be sure they are all "retail" >>versions. > >May I ask why? It doesn't matter if he has OEM disks or not as far as >slipstreaming goes just as long as it's the one that came with that >machine. If there is any reason not to slipstream an OEM Windows Xp >Cd I don't know of them. Everyone is aloud to make a backup of their >own OS installation Cd & basically that's all a slipstream disk is, >just a backup with the updates incorporated. > > >----------+---------- > Wayne D. Johnson ==-==-==-==-== End Quoted Message ==-==-==-==-== -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.6/323 - Release Date: 4/24/2006 -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
