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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 23 2014, @03:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 23 2014, @03:44AM (#128588)

    That's not how you move a Windows install. You should have created a factory restore disk. The leaflets that came with your computer and Windows initially recommends that you do this. Windows is not Linux. You don't move Windows around like you move Linux around and you don't move Linux around like you move Windows around. Don't blame the OS when you don't know how to use it.

    I made sure everything matched up: partition size, starting sectors, sector count etc.

    Then you also used DD incorrectly. You want to copy the entire drive, not each partition individually. You didn't need to look at any of those. You also switched disk architectures: HDD -> SSD. At the lower levels HDDs and SSDs are completely different. You shouldn't use a low level copy tool to transfer data between the two.

    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.

  • (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.

    • (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.