stock dell/ partition transfer/disk read error

[Guest]

alright, so i have a custom system with clean drives and no operating system. I also have a old dell laptop that i dont use, but it has a windows xp installation that i would like to use. im sure you all know where im going with this. ok, so i used slacko puppy to boot live from a usb flash drive and used pudd to copy the partition from the dell laptop to a external hard drive. then used same deal to copy patition to clean drive inside custom. to my surprise it actually booted into windows with no problem. I expected to have some sort of read error from the get go. anyway, after inside windows, i uninstalled current drivers and replaced with the correct drivers for the hardware. then i restarted and not so much to my surprise, disk read error.

just want to confirm it is because im trying to used a dell licensed version of windows.

please correct me if im wrong, i would love to use xp on this desktop.

if i am correct. my feeling are simply, dell can suck a fat d***.

and yes i know i can just buy a copy of xp off ebay. but im looking for an answer to my question.

 

[Hawkeye22]

That old dell uses an OEM copy of windows. It most likely won't activate on a new system and will expire in 30 days at which point you will get a nag screen telling you your version of windows isn't authentic.

 

[Guest]

That old dell uses an OEM copy of windows. It most likely won't activate on a new system and will expire in 30 days at which point you will get a nag screen telling you your version of windows isn't authentic.

yea, i had to go through an authentication process with a vista copy i had when i changed my system up. switched out the motherboard and the corresponding compatible parts. I thought the point of an oem version was you could use the os with different systems if you choose, just one system at a time. i have seen several copys of dell licensed windows, that say only for use with dell machines. i thought i remembered trying to install a copy onto an aftermarket system and had a similiar outcome.

 

[Hawkeye22]

An OEM copy is tied to the motherboard. A regular retail copy can be installed on any machine as long is it's only on one computer at a time. This is why a retail copy costs more than OEM. Also, retail comes with microsoft support. An OEM copy does not. It's up to the system manufacturer (Dell, Acer, YOU,...) to support it.

 

[Guest]

An OEM copy is tied to the motherboard. A regular retail copy can be installed on any machine as long is it's only on one computer at a time. This is why a retail copy costs more than OEM. Also, retail comes with microsoft support. An OEM copy does not. It's up to the system manufacturer (Dell, Acer, YOU,...) to support it.

ahhhh, gotcha. thanks.