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not sure what forum to put this in so please move it mods if its in the wrong one!

well, today, my computer had a catostrophic failure and ive lost all major use of it

Back up is the name of the game, I am not giving you advice, but answering your question. This happened to me 4 months ago, so I just picked up a new hard drive and went through the painfull process of format and reinstall the things I actually use. A pain in the neck, but now my PC is running really good! Rising from the ashes, may be one way to put it!

Bummer, wishing you the best of luck getting your system back up.

Back up is the name of the game, I am not giving you advice, but answering your question. This happened to me 4 months ago, so I just picked up a new hard drive and went through the painfull process of format and reinstall the things I actually use. A pain in the neck, but now my PC is running really good! Rising from the ashes, may be one way to put it!

cheers for the optimism... i dont mind too much if it is just a software problem, as i can re-install, but if it is hardware then im done for! and i cant tell what it is!!! thats the most anoying thing

cheers for the reply

Deano

Hi, I run a PC support company. Can you confirm that it says reregister with a new serial no? Sounds most odd to me. It will ask you to reactivate if you make 'significant hardware changes', and if your copy of Windows is genuine, it should be just fine. If you have the appropriate install CD, you should be able to do a repair install of Windows and all your settings should be intact - and all your data. What confuses me is what caused this in the first place...I would not expect installing Bluetooth to trigger reactivation. Try a repair install.

Sorry to hear this Deano, I'm glad to see you were prepared though.  ;)

Hope to see you up and running again soon.  :)

Sorry to hear that. The same thing happened to me in Spring. I spend hours re-installing all the add ons again.

[quote]not sure what forum to put this in so please move it mods if its in the wrong one!

well, today, my computer had a catostrophic failure and ive lost all major use of it