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
> > > 
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