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  1. How Does The Serials Thing Work?

    I've never understood how the Serials thing works. And I've had all kinds of hassles with it over the years with different O/S's and upgrades and second hand machines and broken machine needing repair and reinstalls and whatever... Is there a clear outline of it somewhere? Say I have a...
    • abrogard
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    • activation clear knowledge guidelines home use installation license licensing machine microsoft mobo o/s reinstall repair second hand serials system crash tech support upgrade user experience windows
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Windows Security
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    Windows 7 Windows boot manager error when using Boot Disk

    At some point this morning, it seems one of my hard drives crashed, and with that went my O/S since it was installed on one of the partitions of that drive. Fine. All works out, I just reinstall windows. Wrong. When I put in the boot disk, I have a few problems. This first one, when I am in...
    • NarumiKenshin
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    • boot boot drive boot issues drive crash error formatting hard drive hardware issues installation manager o/s partition recovery repair software changes status code system error troubleshooting windows windows 7
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 installation is so frustrating

    I have tried to install windows 7 four times today but every time it does the last restart and says preparing for first use or what ever that message says, I get the ERROR in red writing and it's say's that is can not open c:\recovery.dat. I originally had a hidden recovery partition, a C: &...
    • Garetht
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    • asus boot issues computer help dual boot error hard drive installation o/s partition recovery recovery partition restart setup issues software support technology troubleshooting user experience windows 7 windows vista
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support