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   From: dcwashNOSPAM@myrealboxXYZ.invalid   
      
   FeMaster wrote:   
   > "Daave"  wrote in message   
   > news:ufo9eBtAIHA.4880@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...   
   >> As long as you don't   
   >> have a royalty OEM like Dell (which uses a different key for the   
   >> original install), you should be fine.   
   >   
   > If he has a Dell OEM install CD, he won't even need a CD key.  Just   
   > install it.  It never asks for a key...   
      
   I forgot he had the disk. (For some reason, I was thinking he only had   
   access to a generic OEM disk, but after re-reading the post, he   
   definitely has the original disk!)   
      
   Are *all* Dell OEM installation disks this way? I know mine is.   
      
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