Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
I seem to recall a whole rigamarole with XP install CDs where, if you had an OEM CD from one manufacturer and wanted to install on a different brand laptop, you had to rip the CD, edit or delete a file, then burn a new CD. What am I thinking of?
I don't know the trick, but I can confirm that I've also had problems trying to use a Dell-branded Microsoft XP install disk on a non-Dell machine. This was years ago, but the error message that came up was pretty much "you can't do this."