Windows is not Genuine.

[[TW]Fox]

Hi guys,

I am running a legal, licensed and legitimately aquired copy of Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 on my Laptop. It was downloaded from the Microsoft website and installed using a Microsoft supplied beta key at the same time as everyone else on here got it - early June I think? It is Build 7100.

It has been working fine since then.

I just switched the machine on to be greeted with a full screen message from Microsoft saying my copy of Windows is not Genuine, and that I should get a genuine copy, and that I'm a very bad person.

This is confusing.

Why has this happened?

The hard drive in this machine is failing and I've spent most of the evening running scandisk recovering/marking/etc bad sectors on the drive. The message has appeared since then. Could this be related?

Thanks guys!

 

[[TW]Fox]

I got this a few weeks ago with Vista. Running the 'validate windows' checks at http://www.microsoft.com/Genuine/ a couple of times seemed to shut it up - or maybe it was just coincidence.

Says it doesnt support Windows 7. How odd. Date and time has not changed either. Just checked my 'Activation Status' and it says its activated fine? Strange.