Cloned Win7 disk now its "not genuine"

PhAb said:

Hi, I’m having problems after cloning my Win7 Ultimate x64 student upgrade.

Recently my HDD has started to show signs of failure, so I bought a new 1TB WD drive.

Cloned Win 7 disk using Paragon 9, and proceeded to use the new drive.

All was fine for a day or so, then I got “This copy of windows is not genuine” on the desktop.

I checked Control Panel> System and the product ID had gone as well as the option to change the product key.

It’s a genuine upgrade copy of Win7, I have the product Key.

What have I done wrong?

To properly analyse and solve problems with Activation and Validation, we need to see a full copy of the report produced by the MGADiag tool (download and save to desktop - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012 )
Once saved, run the tool.
Click on the Continue button, which will produce the report.
To copy the report to your response, click on the Copy button in the tool (ignore any error messages at this point), and then paste (using either r-click/Paste, or Ctrl+V ) into your response.
- **in your own thread**, please
Please also state the Version and Edition of Windows quoted on your COA sticker (if you have one) on the case of your machine, but do NOT quote the Key on the sticker!
How to Tell - Home

That shouldn't be necessary - and I suspect that it won't change the outcome. I have seen one or two cases where this happened previously, and it was possibly caused by Intel Rapid Storage drivers kicking up.
At least one of those cases the cloning software was also Paragon, IIRC, but it was a while ago, before we had identified the possible solution of the drivers, and in the end the client reformatted and reinstalled, after MS support attempted resolution and failed.

No - nothing to do with lockout, which is a different case altogether.
The Intel Rapid Storage driver problem results simply in a non-genuine notification due to interference with one of the Windows services - and results in an MGADiag report with a number of file mismatch errors

Please post a new MGADiag report - this will help identify any problem with activation/validation.
To properly analyse and solve problems with Activation and Validation, we need to see a full copy of the report produced by the MGADiag tool (download and save to desktop - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012 )
Once saved, run the tool.
Click on the Continue button, which will produce the report.
To copy the report to your response, click on the Copy button in the tool (ignore any error messages at this point), and then paste (using either r-click/Paste, or Ctrl+V ) into your response.
- **in your own thread**, please
Please also state the Version and Edition of Windows quoted on your COA sticker (if you have one) on the case of your machine, but do NOT quote the Key on the sticker!
How to Tell - Home