[Sussex] Re: Sussex digest, Vol 1 #97 - 2 msgs

[Angelo Servini]

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>Today's Topics:
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>   1. Re: Hard disk help/ XP reinstall! (Derek Harding)
>   2. Re: Hard disk help/ XP reinstall! (Neil Ford)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:49:23 +0000
>From: Derek Harding <derek at lagham.uklinux.net>
>To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Sussex] Hard disk help/ XP reinstall!
>Reply-To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
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>This wisdom was penned by Neil Ford <neil at smudgypixels.net> on Fri, 22
>Nov 2002 11:09:36 +0000:
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>>On 22/11/02 10:54 am, "Derek Harding" <derek at lagham.uklinux.net>
>>wrote:
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>>>Second, I have a friend who has a laptop with XP. He has virtually
>>>never used it (it's only 6 months old and he had it as a gift) but
>>>now, without any fiddling, it demands the key code from the disk
>>>every time it boots and, even though the approriate code is fed in,
>>>it simply reboots back to the same demand. Changing to Linux, even a
>>>deb distribution :-)> , is not an option. I shall look at it on
>>>Tuesday and probably re-install or downgrade to W2k. Anyone any
>>>sensible, helpful suggestions before I zap what's on it? There is
>>>nothing on there which needs to be kept, so even reformatting is
>>>fine.
>>>      
>>>
>>It probably needs registering with MS. After a certain time XP
>>prevents you from using it until this is done.
>>
>>It's a really pain of a process btw, especially if the machine is
>>doing the reboot process.
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>>Re-installing XP will reset the clock and allow the process to be
>>completed. That is probably the best bet in this case.
>>
>>Regards
>>Neil.
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>Thanks Neil. Am I glad only the wife's machine has W98 and no other smell of MS except through VMWare. It is wonderful to drop out of the BSoD and reboot the VM without a care!
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Well fellas, I've just done a restore of Xandros as reccomended - it was 
painless, complete, and did the job of getting CD/DVD reading within KDE 
again,  WITHOUT losing any of my stuff or any of my settings!

I must admit, now I am a complete convert to this lovely system. 
 Xandros inc, more power to your elbow, I say.  May mr gate's crappy 
windowing os go down the swanee - the sooner the better.

Angelo.