- Apr 5, 2001
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I installed the trial WHS back in october to try it out. I moved a bunch of data over thinking I would like to keep using WHS after the 30 day period.
Things got hectic in Nov with work ect and I had not turned on the WHS box in a while totally forgetting about the WHS trial thing. Now when I turn it on, it keeps saying WHS expired but when I click on activate, the box just flashes and dissapears leaving me at the login screen over and over again.
I thought I would then remove the HDD and hook it up to my win7 machine and simply copy over all the folders from the WHS drive but every file says "the file is inaccessable" I am logged in as administrator
How on earth can I remove all my data off the WHS drive without losing it? Even if after the trial I decided to NOT use WHS, to not be able to retrieve the data on the HDD is just bad practice by MS.
Any ideas on how to remove the data off the old WHS drive would be most appreciated!
Thanks!
Things got hectic in Nov with work ect and I had not turned on the WHS box in a while totally forgetting about the WHS trial thing. Now when I turn it on, it keeps saying WHS expired but when I click on activate, the box just flashes and dissapears leaving me at the login screen over and over again.
I thought I would then remove the HDD and hook it up to my win7 machine and simply copy over all the folders from the WHS drive but every file says "the file is inaccessable" I am logged in as administrator
How on earth can I remove all my data off the WHS drive without losing it? Even if after the trial I decided to NOT use WHS, to not be able to retrieve the data on the HDD is just bad practice by MS.
Any ideas on how to remove the data off the old WHS drive would be most appreciated!
Thanks!
