SP2 & Hard Drive Failure

[Al Kaufmann]

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

 

[Shenan Stanley]

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?)

 

[Plato]

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.

If you think that's bad. You should try working on cars these days.