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1. Change volume serial number windows xp install#
2. Change volume serial number windows xp update#
3. Change volume serial number windows xp software#

This can be useful, when you try to install programs that take the serial number of your hard disk as a reference. It will NOT change the physical serial of your hard disk, just the internal number that the operating system applies to it.

Marker string from OEMBIOS.Disk Volume Serial Number Changer is a program that can change the serial number of any hard drive. Marker string from BIOS: 16E68:Dell Inc|16E68:Microsoft Corporation Windows Product Key Hash: ztm0gmLOjlFlWQZ40oPK1zF4+X8= What is going on?Ĭan someone please shed some light on this?ĮDIT: Here is the Diagnostic Report from MGADiag.exe tool.

Change volume serial number windows xp update#

How do I resolve this? I noticed that I have been unable to get any Windows update beyond the critical ones on this machine. The WGA message appears on shutdown also).

Change volume serial number windows xp software#

And yet, every time I shutdown the machine and restart it, I am getting the "You may be a victim of Software Counterfeiting" and "Copy of Windows did not pass validation check" messages (left bottom of screenshot this is after restart.When I go to the Microsoft Windows Validation Diagnostic website and run the web-based tool, it shows that the copy of Windows is genuine (Right side of the screenshot).When I re-run the Activation Wizard, it says that this copy of Windows is activated (left top of screenshot).The third computer is giving me no end of grief. The suggested method was to deactivate windows, run the activation wizard and change the product key to the new one. The IT folks gave us an alternate product key. Happened, we would have to change the product key. We were informed by the IT department that our Volume Licensing Key for the Windows XP installations on our computers would expire sometime in November 2012, and we would start getting the "Copy of Windows did not pass validation check" message. The Dell support tag on the machine still shows up as Vista OS at the Dell Support site!! They also install a lot of Enterprise-specific programs and the Symantec Corporate Edition antivirus, before they hand the machine over to us.

Key that they get from Microsoft (my University IT partners with Microsoft, apparently). They then strip whatever OS came with the system (it was Vista in our case), and do a fresh install of Windows XP professional with the Volume Licensing The University IT policy is that when we buy these machines from Dell, they are delivered straight to IT. This relates to my work computers at a large University/Medical School. I made it into a separate question because my situation is slightly different. Update: Noel, I have put the Report at the end.) I am desperate! And yes, I shall post back with the MGADiag report.

I posted the same problem in Social, just to cast a wider net.