SSD Drive (frickin hate computers!)

Tony Scharf noisetheorem at outlook.com
Mon Dec 22 21:08:41 CET 2014


My guess?  Its windows copy protection.  The 'system id' or whatever is changed by the change is system disk.  I seem to remember reading about this at some point.

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> On Dec 22, 2014, at 12:27 PM, foRUMS 4 punkdISCO <forums at punkdisco.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I frickin hate computers!
>  
> Installed my SSD drive.  Mohsen mentioned how well the Samsung cloning software works, cloning the operating system drive.  For me, not so good:
>  
> 1)      Took me 24 hours to get it to even work.  Solution was to run Norton and fix HD errors.  Worked first time after this so I guess there is a lesson there..
> 2)      So, the SSD drive is now a clone and boots off this fine.  All apps work etc BUT, no frickin internet!  Network issue is now been 24 hours also!
>  
> Symptoms are:
> 1)      Allocated IP address is 169.--  According to google, if this happens with Virgin Media it means my PC is not getting a IP address allocated correctly.  It should be 192.—
> 2)  ;     Network status says: Not Connected
> 3)      Swapping back to the original HD and its fine
> 4)      So, only the clone has the network issue
>  
> Stuff Ive tried:
> 1)       ipconfig /release then renew
> 2)      Changed the MAC address just to try and kick it up the butt a little..
> 3)      IP and DNS addresses are on auto but tried setting them manually
> 4)      Updated BIOS< /o:p>
> 5)      Updated network card drivers
> 6)      Turned off anything Firewall/virus related
> 7)      Swapped out the network card just on the off change.
>  
>  
> I appreciate this is a very long shot but anyone got any clues?  The BIG question to me is why should the clone drive be 100% working (bootable etc) but without network access?
>  
> I have Virgin Media coming over tomorrow but Im not holding out much hope.
>  
> Did I mention I frickin hate computers?
>  
> Paul
> London
> www.punkdisco.co.uk
>  
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