Richard Urban

After I installed a pushed update for my Silicon Image SATA controller, upon
a reboot I found that Windows was no longer "Genuine". Product activation
was OK.

No other changes were made and no new hardware was installed. Due to the
changes in the SATA implementation, the O/S apparently thought I had
installed the O/S on a new hard drive.I could not solve for this problem.

I could not solve for the problem. I rolled back to a previous image I had
created the day before using True Image.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" <cquirkenews@nospam.mvps.org> wrote in
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> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:03:20 -0400, "Richard Urban"
>
>>Quite a while ago (many months actually) I read somewhere that the hard
>>drive constituted the largest point value against reactivation. If I can
>>find it again, I will post it here.
>
> Please do - that's a very significant change that will bite deep, as
> HD failure and "just format and rebuild" are failrly common
> maintenance crises. It's also a move away from XP SP2's weighting of
> the network adapter, as a way of reducing false-positives.
>
> As it is, tracking the volume label (which is what elevates a HD swap
> to 2 lost lives in XP) is itself a breaking of the assurance that
> activation watched only "hardware" changes.
>
> So it looks as if MS has taken something that broke their original
> word to us, and made it even more aggressive. Ungood.
>
> "Trusted computing" starts with trustworthy vendors!
>
>
> The other thing that makes it hard to track these problems, is
> confusion between what WGA does and what Product Activation does.
>
> AFAIK, there's no interplay between these, or has that also changed?
>
> For example, if WGA "thinks" you are not legal, does it pull the pin
> on the Product Activation payload?
>
>
>
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