Hi:
Love the forum and I've been avidly reading it for many years now. This is my first post. Here are the details. I have a Dell
Inspiron 15 running Windows 7 Home premium OEM. I also have a HP Pavilion15 running Windows 7 home Premium OEM.
The hard drive died on the HP and I couldn't find the original HP Media disc that came with the computer. So I installed the
Dell Media on the HP just for the O.S. Everything installed perfectly and the machine was running great for just about a month. Then I got the dreaded 6801 error "this is a not a genuine install of Windows Please re-activate"
I tried to re-arm with my valid license from the HP Windows Sticker but it wouldn't take it. I tried both the SLMGR way and the SLUI.EXE 3 and 4 way and even tried the phone activation and talking directly to a tech who said it's a manufacturer problem contact HP. So my question is, is there something I can change in the $OEM$ directory to get it to accept the dell
install key. I know
cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs -ilc %windir%\SYSTEM32\OEM\*.*.XRM-MS
cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
Will register the License key but isn't it the manuf. product code that I need to get?
Now it's saying "License will upgrade in 3 days" under my computer properties Microsoft Windows Install.
If I buy a new retail copy will that license key work without re-installing it. I just moved gigs and gigs of data and re-installed all my apps and I really don't want to go through that again just because Windows isn't accepting my VALID license key. Any help will be appreciated.
Love the forum and I've been avidly reading it for many years now. This is my first post. Here are the details. I have a Dell
Inspiron 15 running Windows 7 Home premium OEM. I also have a HP Pavilion15 running Windows 7 home Premium OEM.
The hard drive died on the HP and I couldn't find the original HP Media disc that came with the computer. So I installed the
Dell Media on the HP just for the O.S. Everything installed perfectly and the machine was running great for just about a month. Then I got the dreaded 6801 error "this is a not a genuine install of Windows Please re-activate"
I tried to re-arm with my valid license from the HP Windows Sticker but it wouldn't take it. I tried both the SLMGR way and the SLUI.EXE 3 and 4 way and even tried the phone activation and talking directly to a tech who said it's a manufacturer problem contact HP. So my question is, is there something I can change in the $OEM$ directory to get it to accept the dell
install key. I know
cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs -ilc %windir%\SYSTEM32\OEM\*.*.XRM-MS
cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
Will register the License key but isn't it the manuf. product code that I need to get?
Now it's saying "License will upgrade in 3 days" under my computer properties Microsoft Windows Install.
If I buy a new retail copy will that license key work without re-installing it. I just moved gigs and gigs of data and re-installed all my apps and I really don't want to go through that again just because Windows isn't accepting my VALID license key. Any help will be appreciated.