This copy of Windows is not Genuine after cloning drive. Fix!

KiwiME said:

FWIW, this is really a fix for an image restoring mistake, not really a generic fix for every instance of the "This copy of Windows is not genuine" message.

True.

Umaterasy said:

Hey guys, I need help. I followed the steps till "restart your computer" and now when I start my computer , the login freezes at "windows is starting". Now I can't access my PC. Can someone help me ?

Try and fix the Boot issue with your Windows Disk. If that doesn't work you can try one of 2 things.

1. Try and get into safe mode and repeat the process maybe you missed a step. (no offense, but it happens)

or

2. Try The Program mentioned by SIW2, Paragon Boot Corrector

bxmedic said:

Umaterasy said:

Hey guys, I need help. I followed the steps till "restart your computer" and now when I start my computer , the login freezes at "windows is starting". Now I can't access my PC. Can someone help me ?

Try and fix the Boot issue with your Windows Disk. If that doesn't work you can try one of 2 things.

1. Try and get into safe mode and repeat the process maybe you missed a step. (no offense, but it happens)

or

2. Try The Program mentioned by SIW2, Paragon Boot Corrector

Thanks for answering. But unfortunely, i cant even get pass nothing. When I try to go in safe mode... It loads but at one time it freezes :s

Thanx so much for that valuable input. I struggled to revive a laptop for 3 harrowing days. With your inputs, it is solved now

Great advice

Thank..

This is an excellent tip. I was able to find NOTHING that helped my issue. For me, it started out that I was dual-booting XP & Windows 7-64. I wasn't able to mark my 7 partition as primary and active, and after much frustration erased the XP partition.

Yadda yadda, it all became unusable. I backed up my Win7 partition with GSS and couldn't get it working thanks to this problem detailed by the OP. After using his trick (and I had tried EVERYTHING else), it all works fine now.

All this just to get rid of XP, and now I'm almost wishing I hadn't given the problems I started having...

Thank you OP, I have been messing with this for an entire week, performing roughly 6 restores on my RAID array. I knew it would be something easy, but could never find the answer. If this thread is not a sticky, please make it so!

Hey guys. I have had this exact problem show up ever since the AVG debacle with Dec1 update. I followed the links I found here to get my laptop up and running again and now I get the "Windows 7, build 7600, This Copy of Windows is not Genuine" message. I have an ASUS UL50v laptop that is only like six months old I think.

I'm not sure where to start looking. Is this fix a good place to start? Thanks

This fix was only used after restoring from a Norton Ghost backup. It is a last resort to avoid a clean install. If you haven't recently done a restore I would try this first>

Free Antivirus | Forum - Fix For Update/Boot Error Vista

If you did get to this point from restoring via backup software it should work for you.