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!
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!