From: David N. Barnett 

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 23:58:48 -0600, "Glenn Meadows"
 wrote in message :

| I'll have to see what's provided with the Dells.  The eMachines disk, I |
don't think requires the CD Key, but I'll have to look again.  It will only
| install on the model machine that the disk is for.

Recover CDs usually don't require the key, but a key is still provided with
every licence, isn't it?  There's a sticker on the bottom of my Thinkpad
with the CD key printed on it, perhaps there's something similar on the
eMachines box, or in its documentation.

Surely any Dell systems in the office would also have come with Recover CDs
instead of full Windows disks.  But as long as you've got at least one real
Windows (XP Home???) CD somewhere, you oughtta be able to use it to get to
the console, and it should be legally okay as long as you use the CD Key
that belongs to the licence that came with the box you're working on.

--dnb

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