How I know if my windows XP that I bought 4 years ago is OEM?

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macguru78

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jun 13, 2009

• #1

I want to use it to run Boot Camp

 

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shollingsw3

Cancelled

• Jun 13, 2009

• #2

If your key is on something like this:

then it is OEM. If it is not, it may be retail, but there is still a possibility of it being an OEM key.

 

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Bubba22

macrumors newbie

• Jun 14, 2009

• #3

I was able to run an OEM copy of Vista Ultimate under bootcamp, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to run XP.

 

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G4DP

macrumors 65816

• Jun 14, 2009

• #4

OEM XP SP2 runs fine in boot camp

 

Winni

macrumors 68040

• Jun 14, 2009

• #5

macguru78 said:

I want to use it to run Boot Camp

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Boot Camp doesn't care - after all, it's just a drivers collection for Apple hardware. I only use OEM/SystemBuilder versions of Microsoft Windows and never had a problem with them.