Hmmm, can't say I've ever had that issue, was it not the original product
key or was it one that didn't have the version of Windows it belonged to on
the sticker?

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David B. wrote:

No Sir. These were OEM disks for builders multi licensing. As long as you
had a key should have been in bidness. This machine had been munged
before, and Lord only knows what the sticker on the case belonged to.
This was a Vaio desktop, not laptop, but that would make no difference.

To get it up and running I used my own key, connected to Sony's website,
then after I'd ordered the disk, did a clean install with the proprietary
disk.

Always enjoy a challenge, but this one was a bugger. Should have figured
as much though, knowing how well Dell likes it's reinstall disks.

I think a lot of it was like you say, lack of product knowledge and all
the proprietary drivers Sony had. But ain't gonna do it again.