Refurbishing old machines
I currently have the joy of refurbishing my father-in-law’s home computer. I’ve had it for months and he started asking about it.
It’s an old Pentium 2 with MMX, running at a whopping 366 MHz with 64MB of RAM. The system software that shipped with the machine is Windows 98.
The machine’s 6GB hard drive was dead. It didn’t finish a boot and I had to use one of my spare 20GB drives to replace it. When I hooked up the 6GB drive to an external enclosure, It was unreadable by my Windows XP Professional machine. So, sayonara.
Without boring you too much, there is a lesson to this post. So bear with me a bit longer.
The re-install needed the Win98 product key. I had all of the original discs, but no product key. I googled, asked friends, and eventually called Gateway to try and get the product key… or any product key for that matter. I wasted a lot of time to find out that the certificate of authenticity that came with the machine was a no-lose item. I needed it to re-install.
I eventually came to my senses and called by father-in-law who loves in Pennsylvania. He had the certificate and I was able to complete the install.
Save the paperwork!
Now playing: Bob and Brooke - On The Media 03/18/05
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