Microsoft doesn't try too hard anymore about copy-protecting Windows. They are stuffing more and more adware and tracking into it so the more people they can get using it the more money they make.
As a company, however, Windows is not their future. They are selling cloud services now. Office365 and Azure. They are milking Windows for money but it's not their flagship product anymore. On Mon, Sep 18, 2023, at 13:53, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > Win 10 allows the original OS to be reinstalled. I installed it > straight up on some Z440s I had at work. Just download the ISO from > Microsoft and make a USB drive, easy peasy. > > -Curt > > > > > On Monday, September 18, 2023 at 12:55:09 PM EDT, Kaleb Striplin via > Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > > Where do you get the OS? Back in the day I had installations that could > be installed on any number of machines like an enterprise copy. That > was windows 7 though. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 18, 2023, at 11:37 AM, MB list etc via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> I've quit building my own and now buy used previous generation HP >> workstations with the OS from eBay. Kurt suggested this a while back. I >> installed a new SSD as the boot drive and use the HD it came with for data. >> >> >> >> >> ------- Original Message ------- >>> On Monday, September 18th, 2023 at 10:25 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> My PC appears to have crashed. This is a system I built probably 10 or more >>> years ago, maybe much longer. And over the years IIRC have upgraded the MB. >>> It had a 1.5tb HDD as well as a 1tb SSD. Over the last couple of months I >>> have noticed a high pitched whining sound. Seemed to start and stop. This >>> was coming from the SSD. It then got to where when booting the cmos >>> wouldn’t even see the SSD. System seemed to boot fine otherwise. At one >>> point in the last week system seems extremely slow to boot. I also ordered >>> a deal where you can plug in drive to a device that connects to PC. With >>> SSD connected I finally got it to recognize the drive but when trying to >>> access, sits there and then gives I/O error drive not accessible. >>> >>> Installed SSD back in machine, same thing. Also, I have noticed that even >>> without the SSD installed the main HDD is started and stopping all the time >>> and takes forever to load windows. At the moment machine won’t even load >>> windows, just goes into a repair then says not able to repair. Only option >>> is to try to have to reinstall windows. >>> >>> Back to SSD, tried connecting it to a laptop and it shows the drive which >>> appears to have 2 partitions but clicking on either one, it spins/loads for >>> a few minutes. Strange thing is when viewing these drives in windows it >>> doesn’t show capacity and free space. Eventually it basically says drive >>> inaccessible. I need to recover this drive. Any ideas or software that >>> might work? >>> >>> Point of the post. Thinking it’s time for a new system. Should I just order >>> new MB, memory, hard drive etc, build a completely new system, or just buy >>> a commercially prebuilt one such as HP etc? The prices of these seem so >>> cheap these days and will already have OS installed maybe that makes the >>> most sense? If I go this route I will then attempt to connect these drives >>> externally to recover data. >>> >>> Anyone have any thoughts on this? >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
