When you're already buying a car with the hood welded shut :^) This is like being forced to buy a new car if you lose your car keys. Some software vendors will refuse to replace them unless you buy an annual software "maintenance contract" from them. I don't however like copy protection software activation keys. They would probably be much more reliable than floppy disks and would solve the problem of laptops that don't I suppose there could be a market for special USB "keys" that allow secure storage of software activation keys. That is, they may be close enough that the software will store the key on the USB flash drive, but it may not recognise the key as valid when you try to recover it. USB flash drives are compatible at the FAT file system level, but may not have enough low level similarity to a normal hard drive to allow the copy protection systems to work. This is what prevents you from simply copying the activation file and why file system repair utilities can destroy the file. These copy protection systems typically work by doing things with the hard drive that are outside of the drive spec. If it allows you to transfer it, you might lose your software key. (Generally, that would be on the logical hard disk upon which you have installed the product.) If you find the activation on the wrong hard disk, use A:\EVMOVE(W) on the right Master Disk to move it back to the Master Disk and then to where you want it. If an activation is on the wrong Master Disk, use A:\EVMOVE (or A:\EVMOVEW) on that disk to move it where you want it. If you used other Master Disks, you'll have to do this for each of them. Browse A:, then C:, then any other logical disks visible on each local computer, and find where each activation resides today. The reset utility starts by doing an inventory of all activations, moveable and otherwise, on the local computer. Put your Master Disk in each computer you have touched during this adventure and run the application A:\RESET (or A:\RESETW on newer Master Disks). The special section at Rockwell Software's Technical Response Center (44, press 3, press 2, press 1) can help with this quickly, but here's something to try: Rather than try to unwind what happened, I recommend that you figure out where your activations actually are right now. For several reasons, the sequence of events you describe can't actually have happened exactly as you recall them.
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