whitewolfowner

It was originally looked at a computer tech very versed on PC's. I forget what his 4 year degree is in but his skills in PC's are way ahead of mine. I think it has something to do with security for systems in companies with all the extras to keep the whole system going. Anyways, fixing it for him was extremely elementary. I got it when he couldn't do anything with it either. Installing a hard drive is elementary; one of the easiest tasks there is for working hardware; especially this lap top; the drive had its own door and everything was right there. It could have been easily fixed if you were to buy the operating system again, but I was not, neither was my son, about to be ripped off by microsoft.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

If you had the correct ID keys and an install kit available, then you would not have had to buy a new operating system license. I could take a new/reformatted blank disc and install any version of Windows on it from Windows 95 onwards to Windows 10 Creators edition if I wished to, without it costing me a red cent, simply because I have the ID keys and the install kits available. Whenever i get a system to work on I log both the OS key and make sure that I have the install kit on CD, DVD, on a hard disk, or a USB drive. The worst I have had to do is install an earlier Windows version first and then apply an update to a newer version, which costs me nothing, while being legitimate if I'm no longer using the older OS versions on a system. I can do the same with multiple versions of Microsoft Office and Adobe software.

If I can do it, so can other people. It's a matter of basic knowledge, planning, preparation and discipline, not a matter of Microsoft ripping people off.

whitewolfowner

You finally got it! Your right, it should have worked but did not. The rip off is not assisting to find the problem; there is a responsibility there on their aprt; they are the ones that crete the problem with their blocks.