Spanish XP

[joddle]

Does anyone know where I can get hold of a Spanish Dell OEM XP reinstall disk - copy or original ?

I have plenty of English ones but can't find my Spanish one which is neded to do a reinstall following a disk failure.

Any help much appreciated.

[Plastic Nev]

Hi, I thought we had sorted the language problem for you, however, to obtain a Spanish version now, I can only suggest E Bay, or the slight chance that Dell themselves may still have some.

 

Nev.

[joddle]

Hi, I thought we had sorted the language problem for you, however, to obtain a Spanish version now, I can only suggest E Bay, or the slight chance that Dell themselves may still have some.

 

Nev.

 

I thought it was sorted too - for the most-part the fix seemed to have worked quite well but there are loads of niggles - eg when I click on the "search" option from the start menu nothing happens - a few other shortcuts also behave oddly.

 

I thought I had found a "retail" version in Spanish which I could have changed to OEM but it turned out to be a "volume licence" disk so the PID fix does not work as it works only on the "retail" versions which I also cant find a copy. The Spanish disk has a COA number but it has already been used so not a lot of good to me - alas!

 

Am keeping an eye on ebay - so hoping a disk will come up soon - but in the longer run will be changeing to W7 and I think those disks are all multi lingual anyway!

[Plastic Nev]

Hi again, if going eventually for Windows 7, my advice is to get a new machine that will have been built for it, although Windows 7 may install on your older XP based computers, they will not perform very well if at all. Windows 7 does need a good bit more RAM and a higher end at least dual cored CPU, which does mean a motherboard to suit.

 

Don't worry about data transfer and getting your files off the XP machine onto a Windows 7 one, if you use a router the two can be networked and files transferred across the network.

 

Nev.

[joddle]

Hi again, if going eventually for Windows 7, my advice is to get a new machine that will have been built for it, although Windows 7 may install on your older XP based computers, they will not perform very well if at all. Windows 7 does need a good bit more RAM and a higher end at least dual cored CPU, which does mean a motherboard to suit.

 

Don't worry about data transfer and getting your files off the XP machine onto a Windows 7 one, if you use a router the two can be networked and files transferred across the network.

 

Nev.

 

Hi Nev - and thanks for the advice - my main PCs are Dell Optiplexes, 755s and 780s all have better than 2.2gb dual core processors and all will take 32 or 64 bit versions of W7 so I will be using 32 bit on some and 64 bit on the rest. The laptios are getiing old now but funciton well - all have 2gb of ram (the max) so may be OKis under W7 - but with 4 laptops to replace that is a very seconday thing which is why I wanted to eep XP going on them. Currently I have a mix of W7 and XP on the desktops and they all integrate nicely over a workgroup along with the laptops.