I had issues with my old hdd. The system partition was corrupt and I could not make a disk image or full hdd backup, nor could I eventually boot with it.
Sooo, I went out and bought a new hdd. I could still see and access all the files on my old hdd and not wanting to lose all my installed programs and personal files, I xcopied the whole drive to my new one.
When I try to boot using the new drive I get up to the windows login screen but when I try to logon to myself or even Administrator, some type comes up saying it is preparing the desktop, THEN I get this black screen with type at the bottom right corner
saying: Windows 7; Build 7600;
This copy of windows is not genuine. No matter what I do, I cannot get past this black window into Windows.
I have searched the net for solutions to no avail as all posts pertain to getting into the Windows enviroment.
I am not able to get there. I have tried Safe Mode, Startup Repair, SFC /scannow.
I believe I need to re-activate my LEGAL copy of Win7 Ultimate but I can't even get into the Windows enviroment to do so.
Is there a way to activate my Win7 from outside the windows enviroment?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thx.
