When you purchased the computer, the builder should have given you an
original cd (with hologram) containing the Windows operating system, along
with the authorization code.
If he did not, then it is possible that you have an illegal copy of Windows.
He would want the drive back so that he could put a new illegal copy of
Windows back on your computer himself. (That would make you an accessory to
a crime if you knowingly participated.)
If he gave you such a disk, I have no idea why he wants the drive back. You
could reinstall Windows yourself. You need to ask him to explain. "extract
the images stored on it" makes no sense to me if it was a clean install...
The only other good reason I see for you not just putting a clean reinstall
on the computer is that he may have downloaded all the latest upgrades to
Windows. This would be much faster on a high speed internet connection and
almost impossible on a dialup. But I don't know everything! :)
Dean Kukral
----- Original Message -----
From: "Loy Pressley" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Computer Won't Boot
Hi Dean,
Thanks for the reply.
What you suggest is my thought, too. However, I am in contact with the
person who built the computer and he doesn't, for some reason, want me
to do that. I don't understand why. He wants me to pull out the hard
drive and send it to him so he can extract the images stored on it, use
those to restore the drive to it's original state, then send the drive
back to me so I can reinstall it in the computer. That will take a week
and I'm not sure that I want to do that.
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Loy
Dean Kukral wrote:
> Since it was a clean install and you have not loaded anything on it, I
> would
> just reformat the C: drive and re-install Windows on it. (I am not sure
> of
> the reason for making a Ghost image of a clean install.) If you still
> want
> an image, you can try again. If it doesn't work, format and make a clean
> install again. As long as there is nothing but Windows on it, you aren't
> losing anything that a clean install won't give you.
>
> Dean Kukral
>
>
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