Re: SP2 & Hard Drive Failure

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:51:11 -0500

Al Kaufmann wrote:
> I installed SP2 yesterday on my Window XP Pro system and everything
> went fine until now. Today when I shut down the system it froze up
> and my hard drive was clicking. I shut it down manually and tried a
> re-start bt the bios would not detect this hard drive. I unplugged
> this IDE hard drive and since my drive c: is a SCSI raid drive the
> system booted.
>
> Then I got a notice that my system changed and that it needs to be
> re-activated and to insert my Microsoft Windows XP Professional CD -
> which I did. The CD tried to auto-start which I aborted and then I
> just closed all the windows. It seems to be operating now but I have
> no idea if will get this activation requestor again the next time I
> boot up.
>
> It is bad enough trying to work around a crashed hard drive without
> being hassled by the operating system because the system changed.
> Taking something out of your system should not cause any activation
> messages from the operating system.
>
> Ak

It's a good story.. The ending is a little vague.

Was there a question or are you venting (in that you may be saying SP2
caused your hardware to fail?) 

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