After trying to clone my hard drive my new hard drive had a bootmgr missing error, that’s now irrelevant As I have reinstalled windows on that one , I have now tried to reuse my original hard drive And it goes to the login screen I enter my password it say preparing desktop. Screen is all blue and bottom right corner it says windows not genuine. I can only access the task manager. I have noticed that the partioned drive letters are not correct. See picture. I need to get my drive letter back to c: I think.... any help would be greatly appreciated!
📎 AI Summary:
The original poster is experiencing a "Windows not genuine" error after reinstalling Windows on an existing drive, with issues related to incorrect partition drive letters and limited access to Task Manager. They seek assistance to restore the drive letter to C: and resolve the desktop preparation problem. The second user suggests the issue may stem from changes to the product ID affecting Windows activation, recommending reactivation if possible, and explains that partition letter assignments are logical, which may be complicated by extra partitions.
The original poster is experiencing a "Windows not genuine" error after reinstalling Windows on an existing drive, with issues related to incorrect partition drive letters and limited access to Task Manager. They seek assistance to restore the drive letter to C: and resolve the desktop preparation problem. The second user suggests the issue may stem from changes to the product ID affecting Windows activation, recommending reactivation if possible, and explains that partition letter assignments are logical, which may be complicated by extra partitions.
Solution
I would imagine you screwed up the data used to generate the product ID. You'll have to reactivate Windows assuming you still can with Windows 7 being out of support. The partition letters are logically assigned, so you likely have extra partitions on the system and they tend to get assign letters in order.