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Owns A Torsen
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Long story, I work on peoples computers, I worked on a Dell Inspiron N5040 (I3) for a guy, hard drive had bad sectors, he didn't want to put money in it, I pulled the drive and got his pictures off of it, handed it to him, he handed it back to me to put on my pile.
Had 4 gigs of memory, I had a spare 2 gig laying around and put it in.
I had a copy of windows 8.1 pro I bought for a Hyper-V controller. Upgraded to 10 when it was free, had it on a server at home doing nothing. It was on a little 64G SSD.
I pulled the SSD and put it in the laptop. Even though I bought legally the pro builders version of windows it still took me a half hour to activate it when I "changed hardware". I eventually had to find the original windows 8 COA sticker in the bottom of a crate with like 4 more laptops on top.
Good news is I'm a bluetooth adapter away from having a free FORSCAN laptop. Posting from it now.
Yay.
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