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
