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Re: “Actually no. How does an install disc expire?”
Your disk worked just fine when I used it last year. But this year I used it on a laptop I'd bought at auction - one with a badly damaged screen. The laptop already had an operating system... one that actually warns me that it is pirated when I boot it. But the operating system works just the same!

I did a fresh install from your disk. The installation was probably 75 percent complete when it came up saying that the installation DVD is too old. It then rolled back the install and left the system as it was originally. Since the laptop works, I decided it was good enough to use for my book database despite the piracy message and shipped the thing off to barn storage.

The short answer to your question is that the installation disk looked at the system clock and decided that ten years (or however old the installation disk is) is TOO old. When I get a hard drive for this Pavilion computer, I'll set the year to something older and give it another shot. I'm sure it will install if I first set the date to 6/12/2013. How could it not?








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Re: Mystery Computers
By: micro
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Mon, 12 Jun 23 9:15 PM
Msg. 43442 of 60008

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Actually no. How does an install disc expire? I can ask my son in law if he has any more windows boot discs or can make one.

That's a stumper to me De.... Let me know how this goes..


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