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Windows Meets New Motherboard - Scott Adams' Experience

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday December 21 2014, @05:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the genuine-advantage dept.

Nuke writes:

In his blog, Scott Adams describes his exasperating experience following a change of motherboards. Central to the story is the fact that he has two phone numbers for Windows re-activation, both of which claim they are an official Microsoft call center and that the other is a scam. Neither are any help anyway. Seems to be a topical issue right now.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday December 23 2014, @05:50PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday December 23 2014, @05:50PM (#128713) Journal

    I hope you don't consider yourself to be a computer expert (for Windows or Linux). You seem to know just enough to be dangerous, but not enough to actually know that.

    You obviously have never done this yourself. And you don't have to be a dick about it.

    I have many, many times moved standard Windows installs from both large to smaller disks and smaller to larger disks using Linux tools such as ntfsclone, dd and gparted. I have even converted physical Windows installs to virtual machines (Both XP and vista). So yes, I do know what I am doing. The problem with Lenovo is they have a boot partition which loads Windows instead of Windows using its own boot loader. Their restore disk would put this same crap configuration back on disk. I do not want a diagnostic/boot partition nor do I want a restore partition.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 23 2014, @08:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 23 2014, @08:46PM (#128764)

    You're right, I didn't need the personal attack. Sorry about that.