New hard drive/Windows 7 problem

clummzie · 1 Mar 2010 at 18:34

Hi,

Just bought a new hard drive and copied an image of the original c drive onto it to save reinstalling Windows and all other programs.

When I boot up it doesn't load into Windows instead I get a message telling me my copy of Windows isn't genuine (it is, honest!)

Any ideas how I can get round this without starting from scratch?

vanandjuanunited · 1 Mar 2010 at 18:39

do you not get an option to re enter your licence?

clummzie · 1 Mar 2010 at 18:42

No, booted as normal then spent ages configuring desktop.

Mp4 · 1 Mar 2010 at 18:43

Try activating it again

J.B · 1 Mar 2010 at 18:53

Right click on computer and select properties, towards the bottom you should be able to activate.

clummzie · 1 Mar 2010 at 19:06

There's no option to activate it and I'm locked out of Windows entirely (on the new disk).

It get's better, I'm back on the old hard drive and I had to reactivate Windows only to be told my key 'can't be used to activate Windows on this PC'.

Looks like I'll have to ring them

Fred · 1 Mar 2010 at 21:56

re-activating over the phone is pretty straight forward and its a free-phone number.

Just a pain keying in all the damn characters. :rolleyes:

Admiral Huddy · 2 Mar 2010 at 12:03

This may seem obvious, is the system date correct?

This belongs in Windows forum