WIN XP HOME OEM

kitfit1 · 13 Jan 2006 at 20:03

Hi all, a friend has got an HP PAVILION 410 with WinXP home OEM installed. I need to do a reinstall but not with the recovery cd or the 3gb hidden partition. I do have a copy of XP home retail, so the question is will his OEM key work with my retail copy, and would it be legal.

benjo · 13 Jan 2006 at 20:30

It would work yes, but i'm not too sure if its legal. I think he has to have his own copy of winXP with his own cd key.

uknorthboy · 14 Jan 2006 at 09:40

I think that would be illegal?
Ring MS and ask you never no

lordedmond · 14 Jan 2006 at 09:44

retail will NOT install with OEM key or visa versa

different pid on the cd

dirtydog · 14 Jan 2006 at 10:31

Even if it did work it wouldn't be legal, you can't use the same key on two different machines (volume licenses excepted).

jonnybjonny · 14 Jan 2006 at 12:13

kitfit1 said:
Hi all, a friend has got an HP PAVILION 410 with WinXP home OEM installed. I need to do a reinstall but not with the recovery cd or the 3gb hidden partition. I do have a copy of XP home retail, so the question is will his OEM key work with my retail copy, and would it be legal.

i dont think any of you have actually read this question properly. he states the laptop does have its own key. therefore it would be legal because he is using the key which came with the laptop.

however, the cd will not work, you require an oem disk if you have an oem key.

lordedmond · 14 Jan 2006 at 13:06

jonnybjonny said:
i dont think any of you have actually read this question properly. he states the laptop does have its own key. therefore it would be legal because he is using the key which came with the laptop.

however, the cd will not work, you require an oem disk if you have an oem key.

nt

SB118 · 14 Jan 2006 at 21:56

It works, it will install but not activate online. You need to ring to get it to work.

Caged · 14 Jan 2006 at 22:04

It won't work. You can't use an OEM key with Retail media.

Burnsy2023 · 15 Jan 2006 at 12:20

The key will not work with online activation and I don't think it would be legal as you have a license for the OEM edition of the software.

Burnsy