Recent content by JEBB

Has anyone made a disk image with Acronis True Image to DVD-RWs and been sucessful in restoring the data to their hard drive? I've created the bootable CD and have created the disk image on two DVD-RWs. I want to be assured that I can depend on those disks to rebuild my hard drive if I...

I have Windows back today. I started up in 'safe mode' and got to system restore. There weren't many, but I picked a date that was, I think, before the changes. In contrast to what happened a couple of days ago, this time it gave me the monster number to tell the robot. I called and gave...

bruceb: I went to the Roxio site to look at Direct CD. They don't have a product by that name. Is it sold by a different company or do you mean a different Roxio product?

mechBgon: You're right or close to it. But that Windows copy was never used nor was it intended to be. The whole point of the exercise was to backup the hard disk to a DVD-RW, put in Linux and, if I didn't like Linux experience, be able to go back. On overnght consideration, I...

ZZ: That would work were it totally true. The computer is Compaq, but the OP was from another vendor, the name of which I've long lost.

I did make the phone call! The Indian women I talked to said I had to go thru the OEM.

Compaq 1688, Windows XP Home I attached an external DVD burner and now it tells me I have three days to reactivate my copy of XP. Now what? I have an OEM version with a valid serial number. I no longer remember the OEM vendor and M$ says says contact the OEM vendor, M$ won't help me...

I would suggest you look at the iBook. Unless you have software written just for you that only runs on Windows, you can avoid the manufacturers you dislike, you'd get a durable machine and you'd avoid the major, major time devouring headaches of viruses and spy-ware. Go to the Apple Store at...