Hi,
I have a strange problem. I am running Vista on a Lenovo / IBM ThinkPad T60p. Those laptops come with a bay where I can put a removable drive, dvd rom, a battery and other hardware.
I run a fully activated Windows Vista Ultimate on this machine. Every time I swap my DVD drive for my secondary hard drive and later on reboot the machine, Vista asks me to reactivate my copy.
Vista itself is installed on the primary hard drive of the laptop, which is not removable and always in place. I know, that I can reactivate Vista on so often. How can I prove Microsoft that I am using a genuine Vista copy, at some point they will not let me reactivate, I am sure.
For their system, this surely looks like a pirated license key at some point, but I cannot do anything I know off.
Yesterday I talked to MS support Germany for about an hour about this problem, but they told me it is my problem of using a removable hard drive... Well, strange in Windows XP I did not have this problem, so surely something on the MS side of things has changed, or?
Please let me know what I can do about that, because this make using Vista a liability for me. I cannot all the time reactivate the copy, can I?
Diagnostic Tool Output
Diagnostic Report (1.7.0039.0):
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WGA Data-->
Validation Status: Genuine
Detailed Status: 0x1
Cached / Grace status: (N/A, hr = 0xc004f012) / 0x0
Windows Product Key:
Windows Product Key Hash:
Windows Product ID:
Windows Product ID Type: 5
CSVLK Server: N/A
CSVLK PID: N/A
Windows License Type: Retail
Windows OS version: 6.0.6000.2.00010100.0.0.001
ID: {79E875B3-FEA9-4B59-BD4D-D3A0BED30AA7}(1)
Is Admin: Yes
Commit / Reboot / BRT: (N/A, hr = 0xc004f012) / 0x0 / (N/A, hr = 0xc004f012)
WGA Version: Failed to retrieve file version. - 0x80070002
Signed By: N/A, hr = 0x80070002
Product Name: Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate
Architecture: 0x00000000
Build lab: 6000.vista_ldr.070207-1500
TTS Error:
Validation Diagnostic:
Resolution Status: N/A
Notifications Data-->
Cached Result: N/A
File Exists: No
Version: N/A
WgaTray.exe Signed By: N/A, hr = 0x80070002
WgaLogon.dll Signed By: N/A, hr = 0x80070002
OGA Data-->
Office Status: 100 Genuine
OGA Version: Failed to retrieve file version. - 0x80070002
Signed By: N/A, hr = 0x80070002
Office Diagnostics: FCEE394C-...
Browser Data-->
Proxy settings: N/A
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Win32)
Default Browser: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
Download signed ActiveX controls: Prompt
Download unsigned ActiveX controls: Disabled
Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins: Allowed
Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe: Disabled
Allow scripting of Internet Explorer Webbrowser control: Disabled
Active scripting: Allowed
Script ActiveX controls marked as safe for scripting: Allowed
Thanks for your support,
Daniel
