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More info?)
I purchased 3 Dells at the same time and it is possible
the CD I'm using technically belongs to one of the other
pcs. I as on the phone earlier with Dell about the
product key. The software installed on this pc the first
time when I had the two OS at the same time but will not
reinstall now.
>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings --
>
> Are you using this Dell installation CD on the same
model Dell
>computer with which it was initially purchased? If not,
Dell may well
>have coded the installation routine (BIOS-locked) to
fail upon any
>attempt to pirate the OS.
>
>Bruce Chambers
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>"ddlaz" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>news:28c1a01c46488$26a9d250$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> The partition is now removed, thank you. However, When
>> the Dell XP reinstallation CD runs, it is still giving
me
>> the same error message about Unmountable Boot volume.
It
>> suggests disabling bios opitons of caching or shadowing
>> but they're not on. Any thoughts?>-----Original
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>> >A couple of other ways to wipe the drive include;
boot a
>> win98/ME startup
>> >disk, run fdisk and delete all partition information
>> found (as long as NTFS
>> >is primary). Or use a utility named delpart.
>> >
>> >ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-
>> public/reskit/nt31/i386/reskit.exe
>> >
>> >--
>> >Regards,
>> >
>> >Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in
>> newsgroup.
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>> >
>> >
>> ><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> >|A few more details are in order here: First, The xp
cd
>> >| is a Dell XP operating system reinstallation cd,
not a
>> >| regular cd. When I first installed it and tried to
>> remove
>> >| the existing partition, it told me it couldn't
remove
>> it.
>> >| So I installed anyway thinking it would wipe out the
>> >| other. Now, when I run this Dell cd I get an error
>> >| message saying "Unmountable Boot Volume" giving me
>> >| directions to uninstall the problem software when I
>> don't
>> >| know how to do?
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
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