I have a DELL XP HOME SP2 CD which is quite nice as it has SATA support integrated. I would like to remove the Dell branding & turn it into an OEM version. I have an OEM key from a 'home built' machine that's been scrapped, unfortunatly the disc was scrapped too. Is it possible to do this?
Do you plan to install the 'unbranded' win XP Home with SP2 on a branded machine or the 'home built' one? If branded, then which one?
Oops! Removing the $OEM$ folder will also remove the Dell-integrated SATA drivers located in the $1 subfolder. I think this is not what robby2k9 desires!
It would not suffice! However it might be possible that the SATA drivers are not located in the $OEM$ folder of the SP2 disc, after all! I found that SATA drivers are located in the I386 folder of Dell's SP3 disc. They are referenced by TXTSETUP.SIF which is also located in the I386 folder. I replaced the 4 OEMBIOS files, edited WINNT.SIF & removed the following files to make it into a generic OEM disc with integrated SATA drivers: *$OEM$\DELLBUTN.HTM *$OEM$\DELLSUPPORT.ICO *$OEM$\E-WTRMRK.GIF *$OEM$\SOL_CENT.JPG *$OEM$\VERSION *I386\!DELL_XP.CAB *I386\!DPCHFEN.CAB *I386\!PCVENXP.CAB
@stream, Thanks. I have a Dell disk that I was thinking of doing similarly. Which oembios files did you slip in ?