The pest again

[Derek Broughton]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 23:01 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> No can do - if they're OEM installs they aren't going to work under
>> VMWare raw-disk anyway.  I know - I've been there, done that.
> 
> Curious: what's the difference between an OEM install and another one
> that makes this fail?

Sorry, I really should have been more precise.  It shouldn't "fail" - it's
just that you get 30 days, and then Windows (XP at least) stops working. 
It should actually be possible with a Win98 SE install.  With Vista you
won't even get 30 days.
> 
> It failed when I tried it because of a "recovery partition" by Acronis
> that insists on showing a menu on boot. This is a company laptop where I
> can't change that part :(

No idea.  My HP recovery partition doesn't do anything of the sort.
-- 
derek