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And wife's laptop died... As it is an old HP we decided to get a new, but meanwhile (3-5 days) she has to work, so I put her HD in my PC and powered it up...
No keyboard/mouse and not network (internet)...
After messing with the BIOS (!) to enable USB legacy emulation and ask to fake some basic LAN instead of the 'gigabyte' labeled I have, Windows was finally loading...
After an other 30 minutes of installing drivers from the original CD (of the motherboard), it left only with the memory controller unidentified, but still works...
Not exactly... It is so sloooooooooooooooooooooooooow, you can die! It is also pops-up a message about too new CPU and how they sorry that they can not install security updates (the OS totally up to date!), every 15 minutes or so...
I think I will try to convince wife to move to Fedora or Ubuntu...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Laptop? Ah.
I assumed cabbage and baked beans were involved ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Please! No fart or poo jokes right now.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I believe the amount of food she spread over the years into the small holes of the laptop helped the develop that smell...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Use the laptop drive as a data drive in your PC--don't boot from it.
Although it's probably FUBARed by now. Who knows what state Windows managed to get itself into...OTOH you should still be able to get the important data off of it.
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That's good advice, besides the Windows license is tied to the hardware, so I doubt that even when it would boot it would be usable.
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I was actually expecting that and was ready to re-activate windows on the new hardware (it is not an OEM license, but one I actually bought), but never happened...
It seems Windows busy to came around the other bugs...
Fortunately, a half hours ago I got the OK so I will collect the new laptop on my way home...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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I tried activating a laptop windows license on a normal PC,
it wouldn't let me, from memory some message "wrong SKU for license"
- seems they can tell laptops from desktops (although not sure why, a license is a license)
only way forward from there is to call microsoft - that'll kill a few more hours, and if your looking to replace it soon why bother.
just leave it unactivated, you get 30 days grace (times 3 if needed), only downside is the black background with the "unactivated" message in the bottom right corner and no windows update (which shouldn't matter that much if you load up the latest ISO you can find).
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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I just activated the Win 10 pro on my new PC. I had bought a copy for my laptop (which is eight years old now), but had misplaced my product key sometime in the past year.
What I did,
1. I thought MS would let me "transfer" my windows from the laptop to the PC, so I logged in to my PC with my MS account and tried to trouble shoot activation. It failed.
2. Came across a forum thread which suggested using Nirsoft Produkey to recover the lost product key.
I ran it on my laptop and got the product key. Then I logged in to my PC and used the same product key to activate windows. Didn't even take 10 secs to activate.
Now I'm running Win10 pro on both my machine. Sweet.
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interesting, store bought license maybe less fussy (as it should be).
the key I had came with the laptop. perhaps it was some OEM licensing reasons.
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RickZeeland wrote: That's good advice, besides the Windows license is tied to the hardware, so I doubt that even when it would boot it would be usable.
You usually get a message giving you 3 days to activate it. You call to the MS-bot Hotline, give the code, get a 30 digits code back and you can reactivate the licence in the new hardware.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Yes, now I remember I did this a long time ago for a PC at work, to my surprise the procedure worked 
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I had to use it several times because some of the VMs we used were wrongly configured and it detected the hardware change when running in another system that was not where they got created. A couple of them in the hotel, because I got the message in the first day of working at customers place  After that... I checked them in advanced and I even re-did a couple of them.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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No good. She need her applications (bank related that uses Explorer with USB based security) and my PC running Fedora...
The disk seems to be in good state and already backed to an external drive...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Just a thought, you could use the Disk2Vhd utility from Sysinternals to convert the disk to a virtual disk, that would make experimenting a lot safer ...
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Just forgot to mention - removed my disks (SDD and HDD) before connected wife's... I do not take chances there...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Damn right! That's why I have a SATA/PATA USB disk dock - drop the disk in, plug into USB and it appears as a removable disk.
That way, if the disk if fried - and PSU's do some nasty things when they die - any damage is limited to the dock, or the USB port on the PC, not the rest of my system.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Dealing with telstra! We are trying to switch from adsl to the nbn, fibre to the node for those of you not subjected to this idiocy.
NBN Co must have got its training from telstra, we live in 18_20 on our street but it is marked as 14_16 on their Google map, it takes them 10 working days to answer an email, after they ignore the first 2 attempts (over 2 years trying to change over).
We now have an appointment for Tuesday for the NBN to be connected so Telstra very kindly cancelled our adsl connection on Friday, try getting anything done on Friday afternoon hah. No internet for 4 days.
Except the minimum phone plan comes with 15gb of data, so we are connecting via the wife's new phone plan  .
As neither of us have ever used more than 1gb in a month I feel pretty safe or cap will not be breached.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Finally, we have a backfill for Graus's position 
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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I have always had sympathy for CG but now I begin to really understand his frustration.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Know your pain very well.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: NBN Co must have got its training from telstra
NBN was formed by taking people from Telstra and a few others (Optus etc) and a token handful of internet provider outsiders,
... mostly Telsta (workers), and particularly at the top Telsta managers and Telsta's-top brass' mates.
So NBN actually was a chunk of [the once publically owned] Telsta (for which Telstra got yet another boat load of public money as well as retaining a huge chunck of ownership), with a few token hanger-on-ers and decorations thrown to 'demonstrate partiality.'
OIOW: NBN actually is one of the Telsta's publicly disowned bastard children. although behind the scenes though, they remain close.
they didn't need no training from Telstra... they are Telsta with a different logo on their overalls.
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Noooooooooooooo!
Not Telstra. Any-elephanting-body except Telstra - unless of course you live in one of the more scenic parts of the country that needs their coverage.
Oh you poor bastard. Welcome back! 
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NBN guy turned up this morning with a baffled look on his face - why was I connected to a node 2 streets away when I have a micro node outside the front gate. An hour later he asks me to connect the new modem, having moved the connection to the closer node and I get 45mb speeds - amazing.
With luck I will turn out to be one of the satisfied customers.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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