I put a new hard drive in one of my computers yesterday, and it made me remember 2 resources that I highly recommend you remember and use:
Driver Magician: This awesome little program automatically finds all the drivers being used on your PC that aren’t included in the Windows installation disk, and saves them all to one directory/folder, which you can then burn to a CD.
When your computer hard drive crashes some day, that CD with all the drivers can be worth it’s weight in gold. After installing Windows on your new hard drive, just insert that Driver CD, and ALL of your hardware drivers are found on it. At the very least it saves time, and sometimes it saves a lot more than that. Download it now. It is a Shareware program that is free to use for 15 days, and while you can buy it, frankly, you only need it for one day.
The Next Problem: Are you sure you have the product keys for every Microsoft product you own? Windows? Microsoft Office, and everything else? Download http://magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder it’s a simple little program that looks through your computer and gives you all the registration codes for your Microsoft products in a text file. Save that file somewhere OTHER than your main computer hard drive.
When your hard drive fails, that text file may be the only help you can get to reinistall Windows products. Just to be clear: This is not some Warez/Crack/Key Generator. It doesn’t let you steal microsoft software illegally. It just finds the product keys for Microsoft products you already have installed, product keys that you may have lost which would cause you a lot of trouble if your hard drive failed.
Do it now. Better to be safe than sorry.
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Simon Foster
960 days ago
I solved the problem of Micro$oft re-intallation and configuration problems some time ago. I stoped using Micro$oft operating systems and shifted to Linux.
Linux is much more stable, easier to configure and use, very secure (Linux eats viruses for lunch and gets no indigestion)and if you somehow mangage to totally screw the system up you can reinstall it in minutes while all your files and configuration details remain entact on a separate partition.
Of course all hard drives eventually go into meltdown – so you need to keep backups.
The best thing about Linux is the price. I like free. Very affordable.