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by **keith** » Mon 24 May, 2004 10:54 pm

Hey I am about ready to format my computer, with windows ME to wipe it out. i plan to put it back on again. With windows ME, you need the serial numbers to match the hard drive and the windows disk. So i am assuming that the number is burned into the hard drive right? not a file? so i am just wanting to confirm that i won't loose a file for that when i formatt. Hope that made sense. I have experience with this and I don't think this is anything to worry about, but its my parents computer and they'll kill me if i screw it up so i am just double checking.Thanks
keith

Edit by Andrew T.: Subject title changed from all-uppercase letters that could be interpreted as shouting.

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by **Mandrake** » Mon 24 May, 2004 10:57 pm

Your CD key is on the CD, on a sticker, not in a file.

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by **keith** » Mon 24 May, 2004 11:01 pm

hey thansk for the reply. but i meant in the hard drive. its kindof hard to explain. with an os like win.95 or win98 you can just install it, but with ME and XP and whatevr else, you need a hard drive witha serial number in it. I was wonderin, if its a file or just a part of the hard drive. I hope that makes more sense. Thanks
Keith.

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by **Antony** » Mon 24 May, 2004 11:03 pm

Do you have a legal copy of Windows you are about to install after formatting?

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by **keith** » Mon 24 May, 2004 11:07 pm

Yep The one i am presently using right now.

Keith

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by **keith** » Mon 24 May, 2004 11:19 pm

Normally i don't worry about formatting. I just go for it and hope for the best. and am usually successful. but this is my parents machine, and they say if i screw it up they are gonna be very angry, so just to be on the safe side, i want to rule out every possibility of a screw up
Thanks for your replies, antony and madrake
keith

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by **Antony** » Mon 24 May, 2004 11:33 pm

... and you know formatting will make all your data stored in the HDD lost forever.(*)

Then follow the instruction on your Windows CD.

(*) Unless you were able to get FBI to recover them.

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by **keith** » Mon 24 May, 2004 11:43 pm

Yep i know all about formatting. So i don't have to worry about that matching of serial numbers?

Thanks antony
keith

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by **Antony** » Mon 24 May, 2004 11:48 pm

exactly what "serial number"?
The number you use to install Windows?
the serial number of the HDD itself?
Or the activation code?

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by **Wellander** » Tue 25 May, 2004 12:34 am

Hi,
There is a serial number on the Hard Drive Disk itself.
That is stored in the bios.
You do not need to worry about the HDD serial number.

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by **keith** » Tue 25 May, 2004 10:42 am

Ok thanks wellander, thats what i needed to know. Antony, thers a number in the hard drive that must match the number that my windows disk has, otherwise it will not accept windows when i install it. Its a little different then a serial number on win.98 or win.95

Keith

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by **Wellander** » Tue 25 May, 2004 1:10 pm

Hi,
No problem.
Also the WIndows disk doen NOT look for the hdd serial number what it is for is for when the hdd needs repair it is for the company that made it for service.

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by **Phoenix21692** » Tue 25 May, 2004 4:04 pm

I know what it is. It's a product key that's required when you install OS. Anyway, that product key is found on a sticker that is placed on the side of your desktop computer or elsewhere. So, that product key is your serial number for the computer. That should do it.

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by **Mandrake** » Tue 25 May, 2004 9:17 pm

Anyone installing Windows ME on a computer should be shot. End of story.

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by **keith** » Tue 25 May, 2004 11:08 pm

Yeah, but XP will run too slow cause of the lack of ram and processor, and 98 and 95 are slower inbgeneral then ME. I doin't like ME any more then anyone else, but its all i got.

Keith.

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