It comes installed on the HD from the seller. I clone it to the SSD, make sure it boots, then format the HD. I use AOMEI Backupper for the cloning. YMMV. FYI - Curt turned me on to the HP workstations.
------- Original Message ------- On Monday, September 18th, 2023 at 11:54 AM, 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