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Windows 7 says This copy of Windows is not genuine

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I'm running Windows 7 Professional that has been activated over a month. That activation is perfect until I bring up True Image 2010, 13.0.5055 and "clone disk". When a hard drive is being cloned, I get a black desktop & the msg in the subject on the bottom right of the screen. Control panel, System says "you must activate today. Activate windows now". Once the clone is done (or if I cancel it), Control panel, System says Windows is activated.

Is this a known problem? I can repeat it at will.

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I haven't heard of that problem.

However, you are using an old build of TI 2010. You may want to update to the latest build (6,053) and see if the problem persists.

This is a strangeness with W7, whether TI is involved as well I',m not sure .

I've had this once, just after bringing W7 out of hibernation and TI was about to start, I got a Windows Message that I needed to activate W7, but the Sys info showed that it was indeed activated. A reboot of the system and I haven't seen the message again.

I assumed at the time, some registry key was misread as the system came out of hibernation, as W7 doesn't seem to wake the network card up promptly.

I've had this as well, but in conjunction with try&decide mode in my case. Once I went out of try&decide Win7 was happy again.

I've upgraded to version 6053, same results. After rebooting, brought up Control Panel/System--Windows is activated. I then ran acronis disk clone. About 10 seconds into it, brought control panel/system back up, tells me I need to activate Win7 professional. Also, on the bottom right of the desktop I am told Windows 7 Build 7600, This copy of windows is not genuine. It IS genuine and has been trouble free for over a month. If I cancel the clone & bring up /system again, it says windows is activated (but keeps the Windows is not genuine message up).

I went one step further & formatted the blank drive (thru windows). I then copy/pasted a huge folder to the new drive (basically doing the same as clone a hard drive). Brought up control panel/system several times, windows is always activated, even after 20 minutes of copying files. Sure looks like True Image problem to me.

It may look like a TI problem, and it may be that TI presents the right environment for W7 to hiccup, but if you look on the Microsoft Technet forums and the Microsoft Knowledge Base, you'll see that other software including Nortons has also been causing this, apparently it existed for some people in the RC versions, though I never saw it then, and have only seen it once as I mentioned above.

I was experiencing the same issue, but mine was due to having rebooted the system after the cloning process was complete with the new cloned drive as the primary and the old source drive as secondary. So I had two identical copies of Windows 7 on my computer at the same time. I guess Windows 7 on the primary hard drive saw the copy on the secondary drive and didn't like it.

My fix was to boot the system using Ubuntu Live CD to delete the old source drive's partitions and then boot back into Windows 7 to reformat the secondary hard drive. It has worked perfectly.

I have used several popular disk cloning programs, both professionally and personally, but I'm very impressed with all the features and ease of use True Image offers. I don't know how I made it this long without it.

Hope it helps,
Chris

After so much recent success with moving my system to new HDDs and A MB and fixing TI 13 activation issues I then had to work with MS to activate Windows 7 on both HDDs. The first one they did without too much trouble but the second one they had no fix for after 3 tech up level transfers and finally had to "upgrade" to a new copy of Windows 7, but that is all good and everything is activated and functioning okay so far.

There is one more problem now, neither Acronis or Windows can see more than 2 TBs of my 3TB HDD, I think in their efforts to fix my Win 7 activation issue something was changed. Any suggestions?

Thanks!