mick094m

Don't want to wipe the bad one as there are my important programmes on it just want to get rid of the bad operating system,was thinking of conecting to the internet again and explaining to Microsoft the situation that I was mislead and was not waare of it being a rogue copy,will try to root out who it was but it was awhile ago ,as I said been using that PC for ages just for digitl imaging along iwth all the other sata drives ,they are new ones don't know if they have been effected the same way,just want to get a legit operating system up and running to then investigate if any further damage has been done,if I cannot access my images stored on the other drives then there will be trouble for the person who sold it as they are very important ones ,and will be reporting them to ebay for all the good that will do,they don't seem to be bothered, just take peoples money

Hi Need a bit of advice I run two computers ,this one for the internet with a legitimate home edition,my other one is used for my digital images,recntly I bought a sata hard drive off ebay that was supposed to have a working edition ofXP Pro installed, Ias I never ever went on the internet with that PC it never entered my head to find out ,just assumed it was legitemate. Then last week I had problems with this PC( Blue Screen) so whilst I was finding out how to solve the problem I needed access to the internet so decided to use my other one to order items from another supplier on the internet,a screen popped up about checking software,as I assumed it was legite I just clicked on it not worried about it as I assumed Iwas ok,then it showed that the operating system was not. I need to get that PC working without losing anything of that hard drive,I have since purchased a legit copy of XP pro and was thinkng of installing it on to an IDE hard drive in the hope that it will become the master boot hard drive,or install the legit copy on the boot sata ending up with 2 operating systems ,then uninstall the one that is not legit,I cannot install another sata as I have another 3 that I use for storing my editing photgrapghic images,maybe if I can find out what is on these there may be enough space to install the new operating system, Any advice on what to do without losing my data would be very much appreciated.