Mon Dec 24, 2007 11:50 pm
If that flash is having problems with the first few sectors, it's not worth fighting with because even if you fix it now, you'll be doing it again and again and ...
As for the license, that depends on who you bought it from. If you bought it from a reseller, then all they can do is sell you a new license, unless MikroTik has changed it's policy. Resellers don't generate the licenses they sell, they buy them from MikroTik and resell them to you. Any replacement license comes out of their pocket, so they usually don't want to do that. If you bought it directly from MikroTik, then you simply have to go through the long process of convincing them your flash is defective and wait for them to issue you a replacement. This might include you sending the flash back to them so they can verify it's defective. The shipping costs might well be more than the cost of a new flash, especially if they discover nothing wrong with the flash.
If you absolutely have to get that machine up and running ASAP, then go to the MikroTik website and sign up for an account. Then you can purchase your own license directly from them immediately and get back up and running. Do the install, get the 24 hour key, go to the website and buy a license for it. Consider the cost of that replacement license part of the cost of doing business.
