Can't add hard drive

From: "Nick Payne"

| My wife has Quicken 2005 installed on her PC. The 40Gb hard drive is getting | rather full, so I installed an extra 120Gb hard drive and formatted it as | D:. Without moving any data onto this drive, when Quicken was started it | complained that it was no longer installed on the same machine and asked if | she wanted to purchase an additional license. | | I shut the machine down and unplugged the additional hard drive. On power-up | Quicken ran without any problem. What sort of shit-headed piece of software | is this? Can't even increase the disk space in the machine without the | company wanting to screw extra money from the user. |

If you had bothered to ask first you could have used software such as Norton Ghost and then cloned the 40GB drive to a replacement 120GB drive.

Then you could have had the same system on the PC with 120GB ("C:") with >80GB free space.

there's something weird here. I've added an external hard drive with no impact at all.

I would suggest that you backup all your Quicken data files and uninstall Q05. Then reinstall it, update on line and then restore the backup files...

Regards, Hank Arnold

Nick Payne wrote:

I don't see any mention that other software worked when the second drive was added.

Also, if the OP didn't know to set one drive as "master" and the other as "slave", then I don't think that much of anything would work, or at a minimum, the drive would not be recognized.

Ghost and then

free space.

That's true, but you didn't actually answer his question. I'm afraid the answer to "What sort of s***-headed piece of software is this?" is "greedy s***-headed software" made by greedy s***-headed software makers. I share his frustration and thus have only once upgraded my basic Quicken software because the bank was going that way.

I dislike the Quicken company immensely for its bone-headed way of

*enforcing* licenses. In a home environment with four networked machines, it would have been nice to be able to use the software on more than one machine effortlessly. An enhancement of my machine should not invoke "The Wrath of Quicken" just because -- I mean, c'mon, the software was installed on the C: drive and nothing but an addition -- D:

-- was made. Geez.

But enough of that. Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays!

-Joe