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Hi.
A ~2009 discarded computer from a real estate agency was given to me for salvaging / parts. It exhibited no power-up and later the 'click-of-death?' illness.
Fixed its power supply replacing bad electrolytic capacitors, fixed something corrupted in the hard drive by running chkdsk /p /r about 4 times.
Now initializes fine, all data is there (checked with a Linux boot CD), and operative system seems recovered. But asks for activation. Whatever was corrected/repaired in the hard drive prompted this.
As far as I know, XP support is gone; the XP operative system has to be legal in the machine; label is there.
How to make it work ?
A ~2009 discarded computer from a real estate agency was given to me for salvaging / parts. It exhibited no power-up and later the 'click-of-death?' illness.
Fixed its power supply replacing bad electrolytic capacitors, fixed something corrupted in the hard drive by running chkdsk /p /r about 4 times.
Now initializes fine, all data is there (checked with a Linux boot CD), and operative system seems recovered. But asks for activation. Whatever was corrected/repaired in the hard drive prompted this.
As far as I know, XP support is gone; the XP operative system has to be legal in the machine; label is there.
How to make it work ?