Well you're wrong, your wallet speaks louder than words and if everyone voted with there wallet there there would be no XP with a hardware lock period. Your all a bunch of lemmings jumping off the cliff. Micronot knows that. If nobody bough it they would have changed it, trust me. You are part of the problem no part of the solution. Now to reinstall your data you probibly have to do the put the drive back into your original computer and try to find it there. It may be too late already by the sounds of it. It depends on how much damage you did to it on the new machine. Oh BTW it gets better. What do they call it? Trusworthy computing? You might as well just give them your wallet when that comes out.