Hi Phil, Thanks for responding,
-I made the key just fine by going to the server with remote desktop and using the dash pannel there, but everything else did not go as discribed.
-I did a test run with the key, and it never asked me for 32bit or 64bit install (all my machines are 64bit), but it did ask me for a Network driver which I supplied off the MB Cd (and it was able to scan for it too, later I copied the folder to the USB
stick which had both 32 & 64 bit drivers).
-I simply put the new drive in, but it never seen it (it did see the other three drives and assigned C, D, E drive letters, with G going to the USB stick).
-I then used Disk Manager to see what was up, brought the new drive "online" first, but it still didn't see it. So I had to partition it with the same Partition layout as the restore backup, before I could do that I had to move drive letters up above the
stick drive using H, I, J drive letters.
-Then I created that quirky little 100mb "system reserve" partition, then I split the remainder in half, then created the second partition, then I srunked it by 100mb, then created the last partition (I needed 100mb, C: 953863.41 and D: 953863.51 partition layout
to match my original).
-I gave the system reserve the letter V so I could assign it, then I was able to do the restore in about 4.5 hours, which was actually pretty quick.
-Rebooted to the new drive without a hitch, seems like everything is here too and working as it should. And its activated too.
Next question, does anyone know of registry cleaning, defraging programs? What do you recomend?
