Neon wrote: > I've been given the task of reinstalling Windows XP Home Edition > on my sister's Dell Dimension 3000 PC. She doesn't have the original > 4play 6 0 serial crack keygen. CD that came with the machine. I have a generic OEM Windows XP > Home SP 3 CD. If I use that disk to reinstall the operating system, > will Windows accept the product key displayed on the side of the PC's > case, and will it activate okay? Or do I have to order exact > replacement media from Dell? > > I've also downloaded all of the motherboard drivers from Dell's web > site. > > Neon > You might back up the disk first (as insurance against making things worse). I like to be able to say to a relative 'it's no worse off than when I got it':-) In this case, I'd use a Linux LiveCD and an external USB hard drive, and use 'dd' to do a sector by sector copy, as that preserves the entire disk structure (which may be quite convoluted). Oct 14, 2006 - You need to download PTEDIT32 from norton. So you download ptedit32 and then CHANGE THE PARTITION TYPE from DB AND DE TO 06. This is an example of copying the entire disk (left parameter) to a single file output (right parameter), where the externaldisk was formatted in NTFS. This would be my snapshot before doing any work. It's possible your regular backup software would offer a sector by sector option as well. Dd if=/dev/hda of=/media/externaldisk/entiredisk.dd If I was doing it, the very first thing I'd be checking is the disk partition structure. For evidence of a restore partition. There may be a function key you press, at BIOS time, to start a recovery using that partition. You can use PTEDIT32 to do that, from the currently running system. Or if the computer is dead, slave the hard drive from the 3000 to another computer, and view the contents there. Unzip this, run it, and when you select the disk (if on a multi-disk machine), it should show you the partition structure. If there is only one partition, then chances are, some previous repair effort wiped all the good stuff. In this example 'dell-tbl.gif', the 'DE' and 'DB' aren't standard designators and are evidence that you can restore the PC without a CD. The partition type fields, like the valid '07', are listed here. This was never a very good scheme, as is evident in the duplicates in the table (Solaris and Linux Swap have the same value). Things like the 'DE' and 'DB' probably aren't in here. Como activar adobe master collection cs5 mac torrent. Awbatch captain tsubasa j. If the disk has been replaced, or wiped by some experiments, then there may be no restore data to work with, and then the BIOS triggered feature would not work. The manual for the Dell Dimension 3000 may give details on what key to press. The respondent here is using -F11 as the two key combo. This site has technical details about how some of this works. This is the best site I've ever found. If you know none of that is available, then carry on. You're headed in the right direction.
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