Win 7 Home Premium Build 7601 not genuine

I did a quick attempt at a repair install just now and it failed. I'm going to reboot and try again but if it fails again I'll report back with the info.

Any idea on ways to clean the registry without a repair install?

Hi Noel,
Yeah sorry for the lack of detail in that post. I wanted to run it again a couple times to be sure.

In the procedure you posted, the install is failing at step #13. More specifically, the installation copies over the Windows files (about 2.8 GB I believe) and then it moves on to "Gathering files, settings, and programs" and it stays at 0% for about 10 seconds and then the installation fails with the error message I have attached to this post.

I rebooted and retried the installation 3 times. Same result each time.

Kari said:

Just my 2 Euro cents, must not be the issue in this case but anyway: OP's Disk Management shows a partition called Data. This made me wondering if the OP has relocated at least some of the User Profile folders, putting for instance Documents in another partition than C: or maybe even sysprepped full Users folder to another partition.

If this is the case, the repair install wont work. When in-place upgrading (what repair install is), it refuses to work if any of the system folders is located on another drive than C:. The folders must first be relocated back to C:.

Kari

Indeed I have done this. My documents folder is definitely moved to a different drive. I will run the full CHDSK and work on moving all original user folders back to the C drive and then repeating the repair install.

Noel,
Here are the results of the checkdisk

Code:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Wininit
Date:          2/23/2014 12:54:25 PM
Event ID:      1001
Task Category: None
Level:         Information
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Raj-PC
Description:
The description for Event ID 1001 from source Wininit cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event: 



Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is OS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.                         

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
  356864 file records processed.                                         

File verification completed.
  2720 large file records processed.                                   

  0 bad file records processed.                                     

  0 EA records processed.                                           

  105 reparse records processed.                                      

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
  428526 index entries processed.                                        

Index verification completed.
  0 unindexed files scanned.                                        

  0 unindexed files recovered.                                      

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
  356864 file SDs/SIDs processed.                                        

Cleaning up 316 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 316 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 316 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
  35832 data files processed.                                           

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  36129328 USN bytes processed.                                            

Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
  356848 files processed.                                                

File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
  4467998 free clusters processed.                                        

Free space verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

 102296575 KB total disk space.
  83855788 KB in 173167 files.
    104008 KB in 35833 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    464783 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  17871996 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  25574143 total allocation units on disk.
   4467999 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 72 05 00 74 30 03 00 fd ce 05 00 00 00 00 00  .r..t0..........
f4 02 00 00 69 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ....i...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.


Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Wininit" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="16384">1001</EventID>
    <Level>4</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-02-23T20:54:25.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>128535</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>Raj-PC</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is OS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.                         

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
  356864 file records processed.                                         

File verification completed.
  2720 large file records processed.                                   

  0 bad file records processed.                                     

  0 EA records processed.                                           

  105 reparse records processed.                                      

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
  428526 index entries processed.                                        

Index verification completed.
  0 unindexed files scanned.                                        

  0 unindexed files recovered.                                      

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
  356864 file SDs/SIDs processed.                                        

Cleaning up 316 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 316 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 316 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
  35832 data files processed.                                           

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  36129328 USN bytes processed.                                            

Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
  356848 files processed.                                                

File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
  4467998 free clusters processed.                                        

Free space verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

 102296575 KB total disk space.
  83855788 KB in 173167 files.
    104008 KB in 35833 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    464783 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  17871996 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  25574143 total allocation units on disk.
   4467999 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 72 05 00 74 30 03 00 fd ce 05 00 00 00 00 00  .r..t0..........
f4 02 00 00 69 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ....i...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.
</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>