HTPC Rookie
Gawd
- Joined
- Dec 24, 2004
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I bought a copy of Farstone's Virtual Drive. It emulates physical CD ROM drives in software. Using it so my kid's machine can network to my server, she can play her ROM-based games without touching (and therefore destroying) the actual CDs.
So I load it, create 5 virtual drives, load her games on them. Everything's working fine, until yesterday . I go out to my computer room, and I have a "since you last registererd this copy of XP your hardware configuration has changed significantly, requiring re-registration". "You have 3 days".
So I go to re-register, and it tells me my copy has already been used! No shiot sherlock!
Looks like a call to Microsoft, get to try and explain what's going on. Don't expect a major hassle, but what a PITA.
So I load it, create 5 virtual drives, load her games on them. Everything's working fine, until yesterday . I go out to my computer room, and I have a "since you last registererd this copy of XP your hardware configuration has changed significantly, requiring re-registration". "You have 3 days".
So I go to re-register, and it tells me my copy has already been used! No shiot sherlock!
Looks like a call to Microsoft, get to try and explain what's going on. Don't expect a major hassle, but what a PITA.