How to validate legit RTM Win7 Professional

Arch said:

QuackPot said:

Phone up MS or contact you Uni admin about it. They might be able to give you another key.

Do you think there's something wrong with my key? I thought this activation spam is only because I simply cannot activate my product until the 22th?

I downloaded mine via MSDN-AA and it's activated.

Arch said:

QuackPot said:

Phone up MS or contact you Uni admin about it. They might be able to give you another key.

Do you think there's something wrong with my key? I thought this activation spam is only because I simply cannot activate my product until the 22th?

My MSDNAA key work fine. But like what Tews said, make sure you burn the ISO to a DVD a slowly as possible to make sure all parts of the file aren't corrupted in any way.

Tews said:

Be glad to... By redownloading and reburning the ISO image you ensure that you have not developed data corruption by transference. Once this has been eliminated, you make an image of your drive/partition for archival purposes... If you have access to MSDN/AA through your University, this should not be a problem...

Also adopt and implement a back-up policy as a part of your disaster recovery plan...

I would assume the installer would do a filecheck before installing? Downloading is not a problem, but reinstalling is. I have lots of apps and tools that I'd have to reinstall. AFAIK, I don't see a problem with file corruption; I see a validation check assuming that I'm a pirate and treating me like so until I actually got my copy validated, which at this time is impossible before the 22th.

If I reinstall as you say, why wouldn't the validation spam start 3 days after install this time?

I see, I guess I was fooled by that win update page saying I could validate my product at the 22th, when in fact that's not the problem!

I'll contact my admin, maybe my key has been invalidated somehow..

Thanks for help guys, appreciate it!

I'd agree about the re-install from a new 'burn' of the ISO.

I also work at a UNI and we had the ISO and key(s) via the same program the day it was on MSDN.

I installed on my laptop two days after that and a day latter tried the activation online with Microsoft directly from home - not at work (the UNI). We put up an activation server a couple of days after that when we hit the required number of installs to do that, so I know I didn't use our own server for the process.

Everything here is still activated...