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[Martin_1962]

Just spent a day rebuilding my work PC

The hard drive went big time yesterday, lost everything.

New HDD and a 30day to get registered XP Pro, cloned someone elses VO environment rather than reinstall.

Lost 3 hours programming as the suppository lives on the local C drive.

Funny really home PC had three drives - Maxtor died, Seagate fine. Work PC Maxtor died.

[TheBoy]

Just spent a day rebuilding my work PC

The hard drive went big time yesterday, lost everything.

New HDD and a 30day to get registered XP Pro, cloned someone elses VO environment rather than reinstall.

Lost 3 hours programming as the suppository lives on the local C drive.

Funny really home PC had three drives - Maxtor died, Seagate fine. Work PC Maxtor died.

Ring up MS, they can manually adjust the timeout. Though for just a HDD change, it should activate OK anyway (unless the licence is also used elsewhere).

I've found Maxtor no better, no worse than the others.  In fact Seagate/WD went through a real bad patch around the 10G era, and IBM/Hitachi did a bit later.  Modern drives do not seem as resilient as they were back in the sub 10G days.


You need to revisit your disaster recovery plans, as they obviously are not working too well.

[Martin_1962]

Only 3 hours lost - not too bad!

If I had exported before powering off I may have lost none!

As to Windows licence - can't find my CD and numbers - I think my boss borrowed and lost them.

[TheBoy]

Only 3 hours lost - not too bad!

If I had exported before powering off I may have lost none!

As to Windows licence - can't find my CD and numbers - I think my boss borrowed and lost them.

If it won't activate immediately, I'd suggest he (or someone else) has used the key, hence breaking the licence.

[Martin_1962]

Only 3 hours lost - not too bad!

If I had exported before powering off I may have lost none!

As to Windows licence - can't find my CD and numbers - I think my boss borrowed and lost them.

If it won't activate immediately, I'd suggest he (or someone else) has used the key, hence breaking the licence.

I used the number off another computer until I can find mine.

Where is it stored in Windows - might see if I can recover it off the old drive

[IrmscherKris]

PM sent  8-)

[Danny]

i have a maxtor external hard drive, never given me any trouble in the 7 years i've had it

bought what i thought was 40gb, but on taking it out of the box discovered it was a 120gb!

[Ken T]

I've still got a Seagate 20M hard drive, ST225, that still works !. Mind you, you have to help it start spinning sometimes!

[JamesV6CDX]

Only 3 hours lost - not too bad!

If I had exported before powering off I may have lost none!

As to Windows licence - can't find my CD and numbers - I think my boss borrowed and lost them.

If it won't activate immediately, I'd suggest he (or someone else) has used the key, hence breaking the licence.

I used the number off another computer until I can find mine.

Where is it stored in Windows - might see if I can recover it off the old drive

You should find it in the registry if you look hard enough

[TheBoy]

Only 3 hours lost - not too bad!

If I had exported before powering off I may have lost none!

As to Windows licence - can't find my CD and numbers - I think my boss borrowed and lost them.

If it won't activate immediately, I'd suggest he (or someone else) has used the key, hence breaking the licence.

I used the number off another computer until I can find mine.

Where is it stored in Windows - might see if I can recover it off the old drive

You should find it in the registry if you look hard enough

Encrypted though

Belarc will retrieve if the OS is running though