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...
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microsoft
mobo failure
o/s
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serials
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windows
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...
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windows
windows 7
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: &...
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