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PC went crazy
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PC went crazy
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Damn. Are licences on their own expensive?
http://www.ebuyer.com/168373-microsoft-windows-7-home-premium-complete-package-1-pc-gfc-00025
That is a retail version which you can use on 1 computer at a time but can change the computer (take it off the old one, install it on new one.)
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Cheers, looks like I will be going back to XP for a while then, (originally installed on old machine) until i get the broken one up and running.
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I'm not sure what this is?
It's a free (as in beer) and free (as in copyleft) operating system. A Linux distribution. For all that, you may be better off with a "live" -- run it from DVD or CD -- distribution like Knoppix. Just download it, burn a bootable disk, set the pooter to boot from dvd or cd and away you go. If you like it, install it to your hard drive.
No more defrags, no more viruses, no more licences.
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It's a free (as in beer) and free (as in copyleft) operating system. A Linux distribution. For all that, you may be better off with a "live" -- run it from DVD or CD -- distribution like Knoppix. Just download it, burn a bootable disk, set the pooter to boot from dvd or cd and away you go. If you like it, install it to your hard drive.
No more defrags, no more viruses, no more licences.
Thanks you for the heads up.
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ok, so my Old PC used to have Win XP on it, I can reinstall that (it wont be for too long, maybe a few months) until I get the other machine back up and running.
Can I install XP onto the SSD? Are there any complications that I might encounter?
You can reinstall XP on the machine it came with, not another.
It can be installed to an SSD no problem, but, do these tweeks to avoid it killing the SSD:
http://www.mysolutions.it/tips-migrating-windows-xp-ssd/
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You sir, are a legend.
Do I need to worry about the 'Partition Alignment'? It will be a fresh install, with no partitions.
