P2V from Lenovo Laptop to Recover PST
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Here is the status right now:
- Customer did the dumbest chain of things, it's their data, whatever. No one is to "blame." But this is the customer's issue and theirs alone.
- Staples explicitly does not allow (technically perhaps) data recovery in this way.
- The only path you believe that you have is to violate MS licensing and make Staples culpable for intentional violations.
Those are the three things we have to work with. Stop. Think. No amount of clear thinking should lead you to keep working on that box unless you come up with an alternative approach. It is totally clear what you need to do next.
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@brrabill shudders quietly in his chair
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@IRJ said:
You have to remember that Staples is a retail store. They really don't want you to handle projects that take you hours for very little payoff. You gotta do what is best for your company because they are the ones that pay your bill.
And no matter how board you are and how much free time you might have.... violating MS licensing as a support practice puts Staples at risk unnecessarily. There is zero reason for them to be at risk in that way.
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@IRJ said:
People don't go to Staples because they are looking for the best techs in the industry, they go there because they are cheap.
Going to Staples for this kind of data recovery is just another "the customer made this decision" component. They decided to go to someone that is not a recovery shop and lacks the tools to do this properly. Again... their decision. Nothing wrong with that but you can't live in a world where you and Staples assume all costs and responsibility and shield end users from their own decisions.
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On a PERSONAL level I help people like this all the time. Not breaking licensing but try to recover data from their drives.
But of course a company should not get involved in any illicit activity.
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Nothing wrong with him trying to recover the data, as long as that is allowed (sounds like it is not.) He has means by which he can legally do that. It's only company policy stating that he cannot.
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Clone the drive (as a backup), then stick it into a desktop. Run windows repair(s) until it boots into safe mode, do the needful, bill the customer. Unsure what requires P2V etc etc
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@BRRABill said:
On a PERSONAL level I help people like this all the time. Not breaking licensing but try to recover data from their drives.
But of course a company should not get involved in any illicit activity.
Refusing to do personal work on anyone's computers has been the best decision I ever made.
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@IRJ said:
@BRRABill said:
On a PERSONAL level I help people like this all the time. Not breaking licensing but try to recover data from their drives.
But of course a company should not get involved in any illicit activity.
Refusing to do personal work on anyone's computers has been the best decision I ever made.
Preach it!
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@IRJ said:
Refusing to do personal work on anyone's computers has been the best decision I ever made.
Yeah not sure I can do it.
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@MattSpeller said:
Clone the drive (as a backup), then stick it into a desktop. Run windows repair(s) until it boots into safe mode, do the needful, bill the customer. Unsure what requires P2V etc etc
Can you legally boot a copy of Machine1 on Machine2 like this?
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@BRRABill said:
@IRJ said:
Refusing to do personal work on anyone's computers has been the best decision I ever made.
Yeah not sure I can do it.
I stopped years ago. I don't work on family machines, friends' machines... nothing. There is nothing good that can come from that.
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@BRRABill said:
@MattSpeller said:
Clone the drive (as a backup), then stick it into a desktop. Run windows repair(s) until it boots into safe mode, do the needful, bill the customer. Unsure what requires P2V etc etc
Can you legally boot a copy of Machine1 on Machine2 like this?
If it is FPP, yes. If it is OEM, no.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@BRRABill said:
@MattSpeller said:
Clone the drive (as a backup), then stick it into a desktop. Run windows repair(s) until it boots into safe mode, do the needful, bill the customer. Unsure what requires P2V etc etc
Can you legally boot a copy of Machine1 on Machine2 like this?
If it is FPP, yes. If it is OEM, no.
I'd love to get some feedback from a MS rep for this. It seems insane to screw a customer for such a minor thing.
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@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@BRRABill said:
@MattSpeller said:
Clone the drive (as a backup), then stick it into a desktop. Run windows repair(s) until it boots into safe mode, do the needful, bill the customer. Unsure what requires P2V etc etc
Can you legally boot a copy of Machine1 on Machine2 like this?
If it is FPP, yes. If it is OEM, no.
I'd love to get some feedback from a MS rep for this. It seems insane to screw a customer for such a minor thing.
You and I both know nothing would ever come of it, but I am pretty sure a MS rep is going to state the legalities and leave it at that.
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@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@BRRABill said:
@MattSpeller said:
Clone the drive (as a backup), then stick it into a desktop. Run windows repair(s) until it boots into safe mode, do the needful, bill the customer. Unsure what requires P2V etc etc
Can you legally boot a copy of Machine1 on Machine2 like this?
If it is FPP, yes. If it is OEM, no.
I'd love to get some feedback from a MS rep for this. It seems insane to screw a customer for such a minor thing.
They've commented before. Nothing new here. OEM restores are extremely clear. And it is not MS screwing anyone, it is...
- The wrong way to do a restore.
- The customer's option to have used OEM rather than FPP, they already saved money giving up this feature
- Not MS' fault that the customer didn't take a backup of any sort, anywhere.
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@IRJ said:
You and I both know nothing would ever come of it, but I am pretty sure a MS rep is going to state the legalities and leave it at that.
What else is there to state. Customer made decisions, had tons of ways to not have this happened and now that they have not been proactive are hoping that MS will cover their butts for them.
There ARE options here, even now the reasons that we can't do a restore are a Staples' decision. In no way is MS blocking any recovery.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I stopped years ago. I don't work on family machines, friends' machines... nothing. There is nothing good that can come from that.
I don't have the chutzpah.
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@MattSpeller said:
It seems insane to screw a customer for such a minor thing.
That is what I have been saying forever now.
And trust me, many more people do this than do it the legal way. (Not me.) You want to look like a hero and save the data, or the guy saying "sorry".
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@MattSpeller said:
It seems insane to screw a customer for such a minor thing.
It makes NO SENSE to not allow this.
It's good for the customer (they get their data back).
It's good for MS (they don't lose customers to Apple because "their products suck".)
