Is this sin?!!!!

[Thaddaeus]

Hi everyone, i have a quick question: Recently i’ve been trying to fix this HP Pavilion PC in my house. Well, to make a long story short, we upraded the hard drive and i tried to use its built in recovery from its Softthinks System Recovery partition. However, every time i restarted after running the recovery/restore, it got this error message and wouldn’t boot. HP, like many PC manufacturers ususally don’t give you any Restore media. The recovery partition is still intact but cannot boot directly from it. It came w/ WinXP Home.
–So what I ultimately did was, i downloaded the winxphome iso and burned it on a cd, and then did a clean install. However, i used the cd-key that came w/ the pc, you know the one on the certificate of authenticity on every preloaded PC.

I was also able to install some of the software that came with the original pc, through the recovery partition that i copied onto the new hdd.

So, is this sin?

P.S.-this is kind of urgent

 

[teachccd]

Hi everyone, i have a quick question: Recently i’ve been trying to fix this HP Pavilion PC in my house. Well, to make a long story short, we upraded the hard drive and i tried to use its built in recovery from its Softthinks System Recovery partition. However, every time i restarted after running the recovery/restore, it got this error message and wouldn’t boot. HP, like many PC manufacturers ususally don’t give you any Restore media. The recovery partition is still intact but cannot boot directly from it. It came w/ WinXP Home.
–So what I ultimately did was, i downloaded the winxphome iso and burned it on a cd, and then did a clean install. However, i used the cd-key that came w/ the pc, you know the one on the certificate of authenticity on every preloaded PC.

I was also able to install some of the software that came with the original pc, through the recovery partition that i copied onto the new hdd.

So, is this sin?

P.S.-this is kind of urgent

I am not a computer anything other than typing on this forum. But my question to you would be, “Did you use anything that you should have paid for and did not?” Regardless of the difficulty this situation presented, if you downloaded something that should have been purchased then you sinned. How bad? Only you and your priest can discern that question. using the cd key that came with the computer would not lessen your culpability if the download was illegal. I may be so off base with this answer that you might be asking, “Who is this non-computer nerd?” but after seeing no answers for so long, at least I tried…God Bless…teachccd

 

[stringbeanduck]

I think your fine. Sounds like you just tried to get your computer going. What gives you the thought that you may have sinned?

 

[vocatio]

I really haven’t installed hardware in a while…but if we’re talking about installing a new hard drive…I don’t see what the problem is. Typically harddrives come with a disk to complete the install of new drives…However, in my thinking…I just do what works. If you purchased the computer you in essence purchased the license for that computer. If however, you did something illegal to get it installed…ripped off a software package …you should know what you did…I’d call it a workaround and go to sleep.

Unless something’s changed that I’m not up to snuff on I think you can sleep without worrying… Speeding is breaking the law and thus would be a sin…not necessarily serious though. If you drive down a bridge and by distraction speed up without realizing it…is that a sin? First you don’t know if what you did was a sin…that takes it away from mortal sin…the next step is what you did legal at all? I don’t truthfully know. But I do think you making a mountain out of a molehill even if you knew. Unless you stole an expensive program. You’re sounding a little like a Pharasee.kk…legalistic:shrug: . But I understand. God loves you.

Hope I’m not missleading you…it’s not on purpose…good luck.

 

[Catholic_Dude]

Hi everyone, i have a quick question: Recently i’ve been trying to fix this HP Pavilion PC in my house. Well, to make a long story short, we upraded the hard drive and i tried to use its built in recovery from its Softthinks System Recovery partition. However, every time i restarted after running the recovery/restore, it got this error message and wouldn’t boot. HP, like many PC manufacturers ususally don’t give you any Restore media. The recovery partition is still intact but cannot boot directly from it. It came w/ WinXP Home.
–So what I ultimately did was, i downloaded the winxphome iso and burned it on a cd, and then did a clean install. However, i used the cd-key that came w/ the pc, you know the one on the certificate of authenticity on every preloaded PC.

I was also able to install some of the software that came with the original pc, through the recovery partition that i copied onto the new hdd.

So, is this sin?

P.S.-this is kind of urgent

No that is not a sin because the cd-key is what it is all about. You own the right to install/re-install windows when you bought that computer, and that is why it is on the partition in case you have to. You did not steal at all by finding a different solution around the problem (a problem which was not even your fault).

 

[Thaddaeus]

Oh, Thank You so much!!! I really appreciate it!. The thing is, before i did that, i saw that it was perfectly legitimate for me to download the OS, as it was already paid for when the PC was purchased. However, after everything was running, some nervous thoughts started to creep inside me head. So, some of the responses here now give me comfort-than you. I think if it was a sin at all, it would most likely be not a grave one [God help me].

Recently i’ve been undergoing a great revolution-i’m trying to stop using pirated software-i am making progress, i’ve a bit more to go and i’ll be free from that stuff–trust me, this is kinda of hard for some of us…lol

Well, Grase, grase everyone! :extrahappy:

I beg of Thee, my Sisters & Brothers, to plead for me to the Lord our God, that I may always seek to do His will here on Earth!

 

[BlestOne]

As a computer professional I would say no… as long as you use the cd key that came with the computer and installed the same version that you had before. This happens often where the problem that causes you to need to reinstall also causes the recovery software to fail.