Win 7 Prof not genuine and cannot enter genuine OEM product key

ToddB said:

Darryl-

Tou were right. Thought about your post and decided I was making this WAY too complicated so did as you said and it activated this morning with the last key the ebay folks sent me via email. So THANK YOU for simplifying this for me. Tried the repair install andit did not work so had to do a clean install.

The ebay folks got so tired of me that they actually credited my account for $150 this past week to go retail so I have to decide what to do with that. Thinking since I have to rebuild my machine and the time I spent on this I would say we are EVEN STEVEN.

MANY, MANY Thanks again to all for you help on here and for this GREAT forum!

Todd-

You're very welcome! That's why we are here... to simplify and solve problems!

Please post your MGADiag report - produced while the notice is showing....
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state the Version and Edition of Windows quoted on your COA sticker (if you have one) on the case of your machine, but do NOT quote the Key on the sticker!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

ToddB said:

Darryl-

Tou were right. Thought about your post and decided I was making this WAY too complicated so did as you said and it activated this morning with the last key the ebay folks sent me via email. So THANK YOU for simplifying this for me. Tried the repair install andit did not work so had to do a clean install.

The ebay folks got so tired of me that they actually credited my account for $150 this past week to go retail so I have to decide what to do with that. Thinking since I have to rebuild my machine and the time I spent on this I would say we are EVEN STEVEN.

MANY, MANY Thanks again to all for you help on here and for this GREAT forum!

Best bet @ this point is to wipe HDD, perform clean install using digital river iso and your key, then issue should go away!

This ebay company must have done some registry hack for the key that makes it keep showing as illegal!

ToddB said:

Darryl-

I believe I did what you suggested. I did a "clean" install of Win 7 using the instructions on this forum using the iso you mention. When you say "wipe" my HDD do you mean something like "Format C:" even before I begin the clean install?

Thanks guys!

Yes, when confronted with option you need to choose "Custom Advanced" and then delete any and all partitions. Here: Clean Install Windows 7

sygnus21 said:

Hi I'm late to the party so forgive me if I've missed a bit but from your post to Darryl here - Win 7 Prof not genuine and cannot enter genuine OEM product key I'd say if you continue to have vaildation problems, then yeah Microsoft flagged that e-bay key as bad and I'd just take the 150 bucks refunded from e-bay and get a retail bought version of Windows and be done with it.

Also you're not going to be able to duck the OS check for too long as something will eventually flag it - Microsoft tends to get sneaky about these things.

I know I missed a lot so I'm going out on a limb. Good luck.

MS has already told him his key is in fact valid, so its valid!

Darryl Licht said:

MS has already told him his key is in fact valid, so its valid!

Sorry - but that is just plain wrong.

ALL MS can do is say that a given time the Key is valid - it will NOT tell anyone that the Key has been stolen of fraudulently obtained, or sold 34 times in the past week.

Given a full MGADiag report, we can assess the likelihood of the installation being based on a fraudulent Key (such as an MSDN key that's been resold)