Reinstalling Delphi 10.4 after PC Crashed

[misc_bb 7]

In the most important time bad things happens and my PC crashed all of a sudden and Windows Recovery is not helping either, giving only the option to reformat. We have a licensed for Delphi 10.4 but we decided not to renew subscription. Now after OS installation, I need to re-install Delphi again then I get this error that I need to update my subscription? Am I not allowed to use my Delphi license again?

 

 

Edited October 18, 2021 by misc_bb

[Lajos Juhász 295]

You've to find the last released ISO image before your subscription ended.

[FPiette 385]

Did you reinstalled the same Delphi version that you had before and for which you have a license key?

 

By the way, you should have a backup of your system and restore that backup. That way all your software would be still installed and registered. Now, once your system is up and running again with all important and costly software reinstalled, you'll start to backup it regularly. I suggest you use a tool like Macrium Reflect to create images and rescue disk. Of course you need [removable] disk with same capacity.

[misc_bb 7]

Yeah, I do have some backup of my source code but the installation and the other apps are not. I'll probably need another drive for this. I am now working on reinstalling it again based on the original Delphi version. Thank you!

[Der schöne Günther 316]

5 hours ago, FPiette said:

By the way, you should have a backup virtual machine of your system and restore that

Fixed that for you

[dummzeuch 1517]

9 minutes ago, Der schöne Günther said:

Fixed that for you

It's a common misconception that all software development should and can be done in virtual machines.

[SwiftExpat 65]

Another affordable disk image solution is https://www.oo-software.com/en/diskimage-backup-your-data

 

Sign up for the news letter and you can usually get a copy between $10 - $20 USD.

[Angus Robertson 577]

The most affordable disk image solution is the one that comes with Windows 10/11, 'Backup and Restore (Windows 7)' which does full images every night here.

 

Angus

 

[dummzeuch 1517]

I'd go with CloneZilla for image backups. There is no GUI but it's simple to use, once you understood how it works.

[Fr0sT.Brutal 900]

Had successful experience with freeware DriveXML. And I also transferred W7 from one PC to completely another with built-in Windows tool Angus mentioned