Windows Activation Problems

ste-sim2x9 · 25 Jul 2010 at 09:52

Last night my computer stopped responding so i reformated my hard drive and reinstalled windows 7 x64. After i went into the desktop i went to activate online but it said my key could not be used. I clicked activate by phone and went through the automated product id thing but it still would not activate so it put me through to an adviser who asked me for my first 6 digits of my id code and still would not authorise. The lady asked me to phone back in 30 mins because of there system was running slow but 30 mins later she asked me for my id numbers and then still could not get it to authorise and told me phone back in 1 hour. I told her i was not happy with this and all i got was bla bla bla and she told me a retail version of windows could only be activated by the product key it came with so many times. Is that right as i thought not.

ste-sim2x9 · 25 Jul 2010 at 10:34

Thats what i said duke. I have never had problems activating but even the automated id thing it won't have it.

ste-sim2x9 · 25 Jul 2010 at 19:36

Well finally got it activated via phone but i always thought i could activate with my product key on my retail win 7 as many times as i liked but the laydy said there is a set amount of times. I activated my old vista oem over 20 times with no problem but this has not been activate more than 10 times.

ste-sim2x9 · 25 Jul 2010 at 20:02

I said i have not activated it more than 10, its been about 5 times about. My windows crashed twice due to software incompatibilitys and i moved to a 40gig ssd then moved again to a 80gig ssd and i formatted a few times to just clean up. Today i installed win 7 and all the programs i use the did a image with acronis to a can recover without reformatting again.

ste-sim2x9 · 26 Jul 2010 at 11:22

I've now downloaded Acronis and made a backup for future recoveries.