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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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Windows Meets New Motherboard - Scott Adams' Experience
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Your step will soil many countries.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Sunday December 21 2014, @09:06AM
If your Windows came with an install disk then you are seriously out of date. Nowadays 20gb of the primary hdd is chewed up with os install and restore partitions. When the hdd dies outside warranty you are SOL.
I didn't find that to be truel
That was exactly my situation, the install/restore partition was toast, along with the rest of the drive.
But like I said, one call to HP, (after the warranty period) and I had CD media FedEx, next day.
Turns out the warranty on the OS is longer than the Warranty on the hardware.
I subsequently found out I could have downloaded it and burned my own. That option isn't their first choice, because most people don't have two computers to burn a cd with.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.