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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows Vista and 7 => Topic started by: Geek-9pm on January 23, 2010, 06:01:05 PM
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Windows Genuine Advantage Fails Again.
Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade from Vista.
This is like deja vu all over again.
We had that in Windows XP. Sometimes it would fail or legal installs.
Yeah, I know what you want to say. Where did you get you copy of Windows 7?
Answer: From Microsoft.
I bought Windows Vista from Newegg.
Installed it on my machine and applied for the update to Windows 7. In less that two weeks it was here. Installed it. Used it.
That was a while back. Now today It tells me that it is not legal.
Oh, BTW. I made a backup install on a hard drive. I plugged in the backup drive today and got online and then after an update it tells me I am not legal. I was legal a few weeks ago. KIs this how MS starts the new year? It is the same machine, only difference is I am testing my backup drive, which is also a 40GB SATA.
Well, I am going going through the hoops with this again. I know it was a legitimate DVD, it came from Microsoft.
Nut it does not have the exact logo that WGA says I sould have.
No My questions.
1. Am I the only person that would ever test a backup drive?
2. Or has thisnever happended to anybody else?
Am I going crazy. Don't answer that, just the two questions above. Thank you.
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Call MS using the Free #800 number...
They will issue you a new activation #
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Patio has the right solution, but I understand your frustration. Microsoft.com has a list of things you can do without triggering WGA. I don't have it handy, but changing one piece of hardware is not supposed to trigger it. They probably are protecting themselves against cloned disk images being distributed to different computers, and whoever wrote the routine didn't think about considering whether the original drive was still present, and whether Windows was actually installed on the drive, instead of just detecting the presence of another drive serial number. I know. M$ is getting tight. Just a little too tight. In trying to stop the pirates, they are causing inconvenience and annoyance to the legit customers. But who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters? This kind of thing gives boost to Mac and Linux promoters, but face it, Windows is too established to make a change for most people.
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jkolak, You are right on!
Got it fixed.
It was a combo of thugs, including a hardware change.
Just had to do things in the right order.
Kind of strange.
They was not attempt hee to cheat MS. I just did not pay enough attention and forgot that I made some major changes, I backtracked and found the way to fix it.
But I wail not share this with you for two reasons.
1. It really will embarrass me to explain how I forgot what I did and did not do.
2. It will most likely not apply to others. Our readers are not that dumb. :-[
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and whoever wrote the routine didn't think about considering whether the original drive was still present, and whether Windows was actually installed on the drive, instead of just detecting the presence of another drive serial number.
Microsoft is far from the only software outfit that does this.
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Microsoft is far from the only software outfit that does this.
OK, I will ask. Who else, please? ;D
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Got it fixed.
Good to hear!
But I wail not share this with you for two reasons.
1. It really will embarrass me to explain how I forgot what I did and did not do.
Aw.... C'mon! We know you are an Egghead and a Geek After Dark, but at least you didn't put your experience level as Guru or Expert or something like that!!!
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OK, I will ask. Who else, please? ;D
Well, I know of at least one other: JGSoft.
had the same experience with Editpad Pro; refused to recognize as "activated/registered" when I replaced my secondary HD it was installed on.
I was able to use norton diskedit to literally change the serial number to be the same as the old one, before the 30-day "evaluation" was up. of course if I had internet at the time I could have simply downloaded a fresh copy off the site and installed it with no issues; and a text editor isn't nearly as important as an OS.
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OK, I will ask. Who else, please? ;D
Adobe.