"Collin B" <[email protected]> wrote: >>Depends on your operating system. Some versions of MS Windows are very >>picky, some like Win2K just fall back to defaults and ask for missing >>drivers. Some early versions simply hang. Not so familiar with, but >>the same holds true for different distributions of, Linux, some are a >>relative joy to swap boot drives others are near impossible. > >Win7. >Some have said that, unlike XP (OEM), Win7 (OEM) does more than just check >computer brand. >In the past, XP HP installs moved to a Dell would not boot, but would boot >just fine on any other HP. >OEM Win7, it is said, will check other things such as BIOS s/n to determine >if it has been bootlegged. >I have not yet been able to verify that.
I used Dell OEM installation disc for Win 7 to re-install the OS on my HP laptop. I used the original HP license number and it installed perfectly. It verified with Microsoft and everything. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
