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RobertWatts57
So here's what hapenned.
My sister had an old Samsung laptop, which was only doing one thing, running Quicken 2002 to keep track of her finances. She has years and tears of financial details in it, so it is important to her.
One evening, a cabinet full of crockery decided to detatch itself from the wall to which it was attatched and crash to the ground. On the way down it impacted the laptop and smashed the screen.
It turned out that the USB drive to which the laptop was attached was not in fact getting the backups that it was supposed to, so the only place where the Quicken data existed was on the laptop's hard disk.
I therefore decided to remove the hard disk and install it in a spare laptop I had lying around, and see what happens.
After quite a lot of fiddling and rebooting, it eventually decided to boot into Windows 7 and we were able to get Quicken running and export the data, so all was well.
However, for some reason, Windows 7 has suddenly started to claim that it's not a genuine copy. This is obviously because all the hardware has changed and it has got suspicious.
My question is, is there any way to persuade it that it's genuine?
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My sister had an old Samsung laptop, which was only doing one thing, running Quicken 2002 to keep track of her finances. She has years and tears of financial details in it, so it is important to her.
One evening, a cabinet full of crockery decided to detatch itself from the wall to which it was attatched and crash to the ground. On the way down it impacted the laptop and smashed the screen.
It turned out that the USB drive to which the laptop was attached was not in fact getting the backups that it was supposed to, so the only place where the Quicken data existed was on the laptop's hard disk.
I therefore decided to remove the hard disk and install it in a spare laptop I had lying around, and see what happens.
After quite a lot of fiddling and rebooting, it eventually decided to boot into Windows 7 and we were able to get Quicken running and export the data, so all was well.
However, for some reason, Windows 7 has suddenly started to claim that it's not a genuine copy. This is obviously because all the hardware has changed and it has got suspicious.
My question is, is there any way to persuade it that it's genuine?
Continue reading...