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Windows 7 activation

one man clappin · 2015-03-14 18:50:16

Hi I had to rebuild a laptop a few months back and activated the license using the telephone code for Microsoft. It was a genuine license using the code on the bottom of the laptop. However the person came back to me yesterday with a notice saying this copy of windows is not genuine. I tried slmgr -rearm in command prompt…

14-03-2015 07:50PM

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Hi
I had to rebuild a laptop a few months back and activated the license using the telephone code for Microsoft. It was a genuine license using the code on the bottom of the laptop.
However the person came back to me yesterday with a notice saying this copy of windows is not genuine. I tried slmgr -rearm in command prompt and kept getting error 0x80000750 ( i think). Also it was saying the registry was corrupt and unreadable.
I know that I will have to rebuild the laptop but is there any way of ensuring that this will not happen again.

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Since it said "corrupt and unreadable", are you sure that the hard drive or RAM wasn't the problem that caused the machine to be rebuilt in the first place?

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#3 15-03-2015 09:59PM

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Thanks Karsini for the reply. The reason the laptop had to be rebuilt was because there was encryption software on it and it was being transferred to another user.

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