I am in dire need of some help. I have tried the Microsoft Answer Desk, both in chat and on the phone, and have had no luck. I recently purchased all the hardware to build myself a custom build computer, along with a Windows 7 Pro OEM disk. I am not new to building computers (although it has been a while) and I am not new to installing operating systems, including OEM operating systems, but I have a problem.
Every time I attempt to activate Windows, regardless of whether it is online or by phone, I get an error message that says "Access is denied".
On 3 separate occasions I have performed clean installs, even deleting the existing partitions before starting. Once the operating system is installed I have either installed the network driver and then successfully completed the activation, only to have the machine show as not activated once updates begin installing.
Has anyone ran across this before?
Thanks
Every time I attempt to activate Windows, regardless of whether it is online or by phone, I get an error message that says "Access is denied".
On 3 separate occasions I have performed clean installs, even deleting the existing partitions before starting. Once the operating system is installed I have either installed the network driver and then successfully completed the activation, only to have the machine show as not activated once updates begin installing.
Has anyone ran across this before?
Thanks