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[SOLVED] "Windows 7 7601 not genuine" and OS won't fully boot
Hello there,
Windows 7 is booting normally until it get stuck on a blue screen (not a BSOD) that says "Windows 7 7601 not genuine" on the bottom right corner.
Problem is Windows won't go anywhere from here. I just can't do anything else (except ctrl-alt-supp which just allows me to reboot). As I can't get into Windows, I can't do anything to solve the problem.
This problem occured after I got rid off my XP partition (from a dual boot XP/seven) to keep only Seven. I had to use windows recovery tool from my Home premium CD to repair start up after that of course as I had lost my boot information (previously on XP).
When I finally got Seven to boot normally (at least I thought) it just hanged there, on this beautiful blue screen, with nothing else than this false statement about my OS not being genuine (This is a genuine one that has been activated fro 2 years and worked perfectly fine).
All I found on forums are people who seem to still get access to Windows and so figure out something with windows or cmd (like slmgr /rearm). But I can't even try all that, as windows doesn't want to load further. I tried in "safe mode" but it didn't change anything, Windows get stuck too.
Am I missing something? Do I have to install it all over again? Isn't there a way to solve this?
Sorry to bother, but I'm really out of ideas
Thank you
Last edited by Norrin78; 29 Sep 2011 at 06:56.