I am all set now. Thank you for responding.

I went to activate it again to get you the messages. Embarrassed to say that it activated. Perhaps I entered wrong numbers or letters (every time??).

Thank you for your reply. :)

I did. My hard drive was starting to fail so I bought a new HD and installed it yesterday. I installed windows and you know the rest. It won't take the same activation key it accepted with a...

I don't understand what you mean about swapping the disk.

Thanks for replying

Hi. I bought a new HD as my old one was dying. Now I can't activate my windows, which I was able to do with the other HD. Does anyone know what's up?

Thank you

btw this was bought on Ebay...

Me too Kinda lol, and I tried, but I was at it for too many hours. I also spent all my free time on Thursday trying to fix this and missed my bedtime by 4 hours.

Yes 7!! Nothing wrong with...

hahaha :)

Well, it's 4:14 a.m. here. Bed finally! So what happened was I fumbled around for awhile trying stuff to get things to go right. I got confused at times. ... In the end I lost my...

ok bb ty

Yeah doing it right is the problem lol Can you share that link please?

Ugh I just got a headache thinking of all the Sim games I have to reinstall ... *cries*

I do. I hate the task manager in 10. It's very hard to get my data to copy to my external HD. I figured out that I can't copy/paste, drag or "send to" folders.. I have to remove everything from...

You would THINK that I'd listen to the majority of the people I know who tried 10 and had trouble with 10. But nope! I got tired of being bullied by 10 reminders so installed the crap.

Ok well I...

I got the same result. wth is happening?

Ok I'm losing my patience now .... I clicked on settings, (Start>settings) the blue window comes up and then vanishes. Nothing loads. I've been in there before. I know it USED to work. ..........

She fellows .... she :) bb

I warned you of my denseness with this stuff :p

Option one ... I've been there in the last day. I don't remember what happened. I searched online for help and tried a whole bunch of things before coming here. I'm going to do one of those...

thank you but ... that happiness was short lived ... :mad:

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I am starting again so I can show you which restore point I am using.

Well, I have everything on my external hard drive but I'm thinking your way is much faster.

Hey!! It's going to let me restore now!! I'll be back and let you know what's going on :D

I don't even know what that is! lol
I'm waiting for system restore to start.

ok bb

I'm just making sure we're repairing things to be able to do a system restore to 7. Are we? lol I don't want to make either one of us take the time to do things that doesn't have anything to do...

Ok. Pic up.

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I don't see a pic Old Mike.

I've pasted sfc /scannow as Navy suggested. 8% complete.

Nothing. Could it have placed results somewhere on a pad? My desktop doesn't show anything, though.

Ok it did the scan. I didn't get any results though. It just said it was 100% complete.