Nah, it was a Best Buy. It was legit.Lunch Money wrote:In the literature they gave you should have been your XP license on some piece of glossy card-stock. Sometimes they'll also stick the license on your tower box somewhere.
If it was a "local shop", they may not have bothered with a legit copy... <darts eyes sideways>. If it's a legit copy, somewhere either on the machine or in the stack of papers they gave you, there should be a license key. If not, by all means go buy yourself a new license.
Problem is, I don't recall any paperwork other than my receipt and of course my manuals for the tower, monitor and the printer... Hmm. That's disconcerting.
I'll have a look around.
Regardless, the machine would have a Vista # on it, since that's what it was packaged w/ at the factory.
But that's another problem and again, I don't wish to derail this useful thread. If needs be I'll just order an OEM XP from Tiger Direct or go ahead and upgrad to Vista.
Anyhow.
I would love to use the free software for the Seagate/Maxtor drives, but I can't make use of it, and I can't afford right now to buy a USB drive especially just to make a drive image. (Wow. When I say it out loud it sounds crazy) Guess I'll start saving up for that. I s'pose it's worth it.
Then again, maybe I'm not suited to it. Perhaps I should just go back to bass guitar and an abacus.
But there's good news!
I dug through some computer mags and found an issue of PC Answers from last month (so, two months ago for you in the UK) #177, that on the insert disc has a free copy of Paragon Drive Backup 8.5, with a little walk-through in the mag! Yay! Hooray for hand-holding!
Now I just hope it works.
Synchronize your watches. I start sweating......now!