Does a OEM holographic XP Home SP1 disk contain the EXACT same information as a HP Operating System Disk  (that would come in the set of Hewlit Packard's system recovery disk's) , that is labled XP Home SP1.

I wondered if the HP disk maybe, was not as complete, file wise, as the OEM disk.

Just curious.No, Recovery CD's are different and only applicable to a particular computer.  They are complete, but only for that computer.  Maybe more complete, since they contain the proper drivers.well, I have seen the HP disk be used as a stand alone ( not the extra bloat added) reinstall of the OS, the drivers were on seperate disks. And another disk with Norton , Adobe, etc.  On a raw hard drive it booted and installed just like a Microsoft disk.

The product key on the case was used, all activated fine. Runs fine.

I NOTICED, when you click the green start BUTTON, the menu box rises, there did not seem to be as many programs on the right side  (from My Documents on down) , or what ever you would call them, LISTED there, as in mine, which was loaded with a holographic OEM disk.

That just MADE me wonder about the files on both disks, or lack of.


thanks