"This copy of Windows is not genuine"
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"This copy of Windows is not genuine"
31-01-2011 8:40 PM
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I have bought a new hard drive to do the installation on, disconnected my old hard drive and because it is a upgrade win 7 disc I installed my copy of win xp in C (I did not activate the xp, is that were I have gone wrong?) I then installed win 7 as a custom installation in C drive only to be told it was not genuine.
The only other thing that could be wrong is that back in December 2009 I bought 2 upgrade copies of win7 and received 2 product keys but as they charged extra for the cd I only bought one cd. I have successfully upgraded the laptop from vista to win7 using the cd and the other product key. I did not think that the product key was paired to the CD.
Re: "This copy of Windows is not genuine"
31-01-2011 8:52 PM
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To get round the problem you could try the system here
http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows-7/clean-install-windows-7-with-upgrade-media.aspx
Re: "This copy of Windows is not genuine"
31-01-2011 9:22 PM
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If the problem is the upgrade disk is looking for a licensed copy of XP, should I not reformat C, install XP, activate XP and then use the win 7 upgrade cd to install win7
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31-01-2011 9:38 PM
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Re: "This copy of Windows is not genuine"
01-02-2011 2:49 PM
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In the past when In the past when I have installed XP it has needed the drivers for motherboard, graphics card etc. So I had downloaded the win7 drivers to have them ready but win7 seems to work well without me doing anything. Do I need to use the downloaded drivers
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02-02-2011 7:03 AM
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02-02-2011 8:57 AM
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The Realtek issue I've seen (quite recently as it happens) on Vista - only because I wondered why the front audio sockets weren't working on a PC I was "fettling". Downloaded the correct drivers from the motherboard site and all was well.
Re: "This copy of Windows is not genuine"
02-02-2011 12:36 PM
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I have installed Windows 7 on a new hard drive, in a PC which was previously running XP, I can select which drive to boot to using the BIOS on start-up. But my Windows 7 is an upgrade version upgraded from XP, will Microsoft still let me use my Windows XP on the other hard drive? because of course the same product key was used for both instances of XP. Now that I've got when Windows 7 running I don't envisage wanting to do a lot with my old XP installation but you never know.
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02-02-2011 1:35 PM
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Sounds from what you've said though that this wouldn't be too much of a problem, if it is indeed the case. I have to say I'm very impressed with Windows 7 overall.
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02-02-2011 2:05 PM
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I formatted the hard drive installed XP again, did a telephone activation (using the product key which was also used some years ago for the original XP installation) and then installed my upgrade Windows 7 which is working fine now.
What I was wondering is, if I boot to the original hard drive with only XP, the original XP on it, will Microsoft still do let me use XP?
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02-02-2011 2:17 PM
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