I have a reason to backup often

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On my 300GB drive I have been cleaning it out to install back in Windows XP because my Windows 7 is trashed because I was on Dial-up and the key tired to reactivite over 3 times and now the key is trash. I have been working on it for about 2 days.

There is a telephone number on the Microsoft documentation for a call centre. You will need to explain where you purchased the operating system and how it went wrong. They can then provide a key over the telephone which you will need to write down and then type in to the authorization dialog - it does not require the computer to connect.

Backup is always important - it is good to have either two physical drives or two separate partitions (one with your data, which is never used for OS installation). External drives are so cheap that they have to be worth the physical and sentimental value of whatever is on most people's computers.

While you are having trouble, you might try downloading the Live CD of Fedora (http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora) or some similarly stable Linux. The OS boots off the CD without modifying your hard disk, so you can try it out and check compatibility with your hardware. If you have enough disk space, then you can install Linux alongside your other operating system, but install the Linux after the MS Windows because MS overwrites the Linux startup.

yes, backing up is good, and backing up means try to have 2 separate copies at all times. as my brother found out, just because you have something on an external hard drive, it doesn't mean you can delete it off your computer. it fell off a table, and stopped working, so anything he didn't have on his computer, he permanently lost.
in this day and age, even DVD's are awkward, because it is so easy to get 100GB of stuff. photos are fine, but any documents, it is awkward to separate it into 4.37GB blocks.
I have 2 hard drives, one external that always stays at home, and a portable that has all my photos. I have a backup of all my documents that aren't photos or music on both hard drives, and I try to regularly back up.
I don't think I have lost anything because of a failed hard drive, I even think I have some stuff that is nearly 10 years old!
I just wish there was some easy way to sort everything out. with papers, it is easy because I can just make piles for uni stuff, drawings of buildings (one of my special interests is skyscrapers), other stuff, etc. but with a computer, I can't really do that.
as for the code thing, before my family got a wireless router, I rang Microsoft to register my Flight Simulator X, which was completely automated. I live in NZ, so I'm not sure what it would be like in other places.

StuartN you have to pay to call that center. Also I didn't get it from the store I got it from a buddy that is in MSDN but recently I have not been able to contact him from what I heard he went back to his moms to take care of her.

I have a Copy of Ubuntu, I have several hard drive as you can see