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Answer» Greetings. I am a new poster in serious need of some assistance. I purchased a legal xp disc and installed it on 3 laptops with crashed o/s. 2 are dells, the other a GATEWAY. dell one wouldn't accept the installation at all and indicates there is a file needed to install that isn't on the disc. on the other 2, the installation worked but there are several 'other devices' that can't be located...network controller, etc. the odd thing is that both the dell and the gateway are missing the same adapters/controllers/drivers (I'm open to suggestions SINCE I don't know where to go from here). i tried downloading a program from a memory stick but it cannot recognize the specific missing components. i tried both dell and gateway sites...the listed drivers didn't SEEM appropriate. Can anybody help me out with finding the network controller, etc. so I can use the xp online? Thanks very much in advance!Sounds like you are missing the chipset drivers for each respective MBoard... Dell's are easy...simply travel to their site and enter the service tag# and it will list the appropiate drivers. You are aware that the liscense terms for XP are 1 liscense= 1 machine.Quote from: patio on August 05, 2009, 12:47:01 AM You are aware that the liscense terms for XP are 1 liscense= 1 machine. We won't help you pirate an OS.Quote from: Quantos on August 07, 2009, 11:50:10 PM We won't help you pirate an OS. Where did he say that he was pirating? He said that the computers had crashed OS's. That would lead me to believe that each of the computers had a legal LICENSE before the crashes. I've used copied and borrowed disks several times in the past (you wouldn't believe how many people lose their Windows disks) and installed legal copies of Windows that way. As long as the computers have the product key sticker on them it is perfectly legal to use the same disk to install windows on all three of them. @zagoria The one Dell that wouldn't install windows because it couldn't find the file, probably has a dirty CD drive. Try swapping out the CD drive for a known good one and see if Windows will install. For the other two computers, can you post a screenshot of Device Manager? Can you tell us the service tag number or the model of each of them? zagoria, just contact Dell, they can send you systems disks for the systems in question, these disks would have all the necessary drivers. They usually do this for the cost of shipping, but I've seen cases where they just send them out.

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Greetings. I am a new poster in serious need of some assistance. I purchased a legal xp disc and installed it on 3 laptops with crashed o/s. 2 are dells, the other a GATEWAY. dell one wouldn't accept the installation at all and indicates there is a file needed to install that isn't on the disc. on the other 2, the installation worked but there are several 'other devices' that can't be located...network controller, etc. the odd thing is that both the dell and the gateway are missing the same adapters/controllers/drivers (I'm open to suggestions SINCE I don't know where to go from here). i tried downloading a program from a memory stick but it cannot recognize the specific missing components. i tried both dell and gateway sites...the listed drivers didn't SEEM appropriate. Can anybody help me out with finding the network controller, etc. so I can use the xp online? Thanks very much in advance!Sounds like you are missing the chipset drivers for each respective MBoard...
Dell's are easy...simply travel to their site and enter the service tag# and it will list the appropiate drivers.

You are aware that the liscense terms for XP are 1 liscense= 1 machine.Quote from: patio on August 05, 2009, 12:47:01 AM

You are aware that the liscense terms for XP are 1 liscense= 1 machine.

We won't help you pirate an OS.Quote from: Quantos on August 07, 2009, 11:50:10 PM

We won't help you pirate an OS.

Where did he say that he was pirating? He said that the computers had crashed OS's. That would lead me to believe that each of the computers had a legal LICENSE before the crashes. I've used copied and borrowed disks several times in the past (you wouldn't believe how many people lose their Windows disks) and installed legal copies of Windows that way. As long as the computers have the product key sticker on them it is perfectly legal to use the same disk to install windows on all three of them.

@zagoria
The one Dell that wouldn't install windows because it couldn't find the file, probably has a dirty CD drive. Try swapping out the CD drive for a known good one and see if Windows will install.

For the other two computers, can you post a screenshot of Device Manager? Can you tell us the service tag number or the model of each of them?

zagoria, just contact Dell, they can send you systems disks for the systems in question, these disks would have all the necessary drivers. They usually do this for the cost of shipping, but I've seen cases where they just send them out.

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