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[LesleyB]

My laptop died in an accident yesterday.

I have accident insurance on the beast and so they are coming out to fix it on Friday. The plan is to change out the HDD and the motherboard but I suspect the DVD may need to go and the wired network isn't working.

It's limped along enough this afternoon for me to get data off and I am wondering what to do about my install of AutoCAD.

I've AutoDesk Inventor Professional 11 and I'm in the UK. I have the disk plus my authorization code. What's the situation? Can I simply re-install onto the new HDD? Or do I have to try and uninstall from a dodgy hard drive with what looks like no network working on it at all? No wireless and no wired either.

Regards

Lesley

[Alan Cullen]

What you do is.......go back to your acad dealer....and explain it to him what happened......he will sort it out......no problem......

This is a common occurence...Autodesk understands this......no big issue.....

Even if you don't have an acad dealer......just reinstall it and re-apply for the whatevers that AutoDesk require.....no problems.....:)

[ReMark]

Do a straightforward reinstall onto the new laptop. There shouldn't be any issues.

[Strix]

I wondered why I'd not seen you posting recently Lesley :(

did you get it all sorted out?

I hope you weren't caught up in the flooding btw :?

[LesleyB]

Hiya Strix

Laptop is fine - everything re-installed okay thank goodness. Just got some dead pixels on the screen and trying to decide if that red is too high but otherwise it seems to work. Am being *much* more careful now.

Re the floods:
Have had to sweep the garage out twice - once for each flood - and
lost money due to canceled work - the joys of self employment.:huh:
But nothing as bad as for the folks in places like Catcliffe and Toll Bar thankfully.

Hope you are surviving okay and thank you for asking

Regards

L.