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Reinstall with OEM key on same system - Not Genuine ?
I bought a Thinkpad T500 labeled as Refurbished by Lenovo somewhere in USA. It was sold by a large scale ebay dealer listing a large inventory of "Factory Refurbished" Thinkpads. It came with an OEM Windows 7 Pro installation, but it was not a standard Lenovo image that comes with a new system. To get rid of the bloatware and to get a system pre-configured, I restored a disk image of a clean setup from another similar Thinkpad and then Activated after changing to the OEM key that was on the system I bought.
I then checked the installation with the Genuine Validation Tool and it was marked as Not Genuine and I have been getting daily pop-ups that Windows is not Genuine.
The Question Finally:
Does this mean the original system was not Genuine because of Dealer disk duplication without changing keys, or does it mean that you can't do what I did.
There are 3 possible answers
1. A fresh installation using the original OEM key not allowed.
2. Changing to the OEM key on an imported installation before activating is not allowed.
3. The dealer sent a system that was not Genuine.