Posts by Roger from Belg

The laptop is still under warranty. I bought it end of January / begin of February, and took the (mandatory) 2 year warranty. But according to the people at the store, once you install programs on the laptop, there's no warranty for...

I'm not familiar with Ghost's 'Force original signature' option, but if you copy a 120 Gb disk onto a 100 Gb disk, doesn't Windows recognise the 100 Gb disk as a 120 Gb one ? The second disk I bought is identical to the original one....

I forgot to tell you that it is possible to take an image from the C-drive durinbg installation from the hidden drive, right at the time of the first reboot. The problem I encounered earlier was due to a missing hidden partition. It...

Dutch/Flemish : see http://www.dasdan.be/modules/newbb/v...0#forumpost980 For those of you who want to keep it cheap but 100% legal, and use the method with Acronis Partition Director and Acronis True Image on the (illegal) Hiren's...

I guess I must be the record holder of the most Windows installations on the same PC... I just tried the installation from a self created Windows CD without replacement by SP2 files again, but supplied the needed files in the...

What do you need to protect your Windows licence from hard disk failure ? An external USB drive with 5 Gb free space. Acronis Disk Director (ADD) for het partitioning and formatting the new hard disk. The basic version cost about 50...

How to create an installation CD from the files on your laptop if your laptop came without installation or recovery CD's ? The method below uses a script that runs under autoit (free program), and that automatically creates a bootable...

I found a way to write a complete installation CD using a script that automatically does all steps for you. From this CD you boot in the normal Windows installation (NTFS available !!!). Unfortunately the Media Center Edition files were...

I'm glad ro read that you found this out in time. It would have destroyed your last chance to reinstall Windows. As I wrote before, it is possible to make an image of the PQSERVICE partition using Acronis True Image on the Hiren's...