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Surviving Disk Crashes
Category: Weekly Columns / Small Business Spotlight – August 9, 2006. Posted by Rahul Pitre.
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# You can’t find the Windows XP CD
# You can find the Office 2003 CD, but … the registration key has vanished …
# You purchased some software online and the downloaded file just got hosed along with the now-deceased hard drive. Of course, you don’t remember what user id you used for registration and the credit card used for the purchase was cancelled last year.
# You use the 1999 version of some software. … The 2006 version … can’t read the version 1999 data files.
# Tech support asked you to make changes to the registry … you can’t remember what you did.
# You can’t remember the name of that little East-European program you use to take notes
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He left out the crap that comes with the system that you got with the system for free but there’s no way to reinstall it or register it or reauthenticate to it or reactivate it. And, it’s was registered using an now defunct email account for an isp that was acquired and spun out six times. Arghhh!
My list would go:
- Window’s
- Office
- other MSFT products
- free stuff that came on the hard disk
- rud that your isp gave you (note: the free mcafee is probably why i’m in this mess!)
- stuff you did
- stuff you downloaded
- stuff you bought with no media
- stuff you bought, media & keys & stuff gone
- settings inside programs that won’t divulge what you did or allow you to export your own data
- time spent in recovery
- all your data
- all your methods and procedures
And this is a productivity enhancer?
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