You can not restore the activation from another hard drive on a new hard drive. If you have re-activated the old activation online, you are ready to backup this new activation and restore on this new hard drive flawless.
Just tried another backup and restore on my activated system, same result. I even did a system restart before I did the restore. I am about ready to give up on this machine. View attachment 20327
It is really abnormal. Your data.dat file looks locked forever. Maybe one permission that has been touched. If you want, I can support that using the Team Viewer. Just PM me.
I might take you up on the offer, thank you. I am going to keep trying things. Do you think it will work if I do a clean install and restore with the backup I just made?
Followed your steps, still the same result. View attachment 20328 Thank you for all of your help. I will do a clean install tomorrow and post my results here.
Code: Place AutoRestore-{arch}.exe, tokens.dat, data.dat and config.ini in SCRIPTS folder with setupcomplete.cmd {replace {arch} with the windows you are planning on using x86 or x64 Ok so i created the setupcomplete.cmd like this... Code: @echo off %~dp0AutoRestore-x86.exe exit But it does not work, have i done something wrong have all the files in the correct folder... If i add some other code to the setupcomplete.cmd that works only not the autorestore?
Well I dont know what to think. I just did the clean install a while ago and failed on the restore. All the hardware and drivers are the same. View attachment 20343
The backup that you have restored are from the new HDD??? You need to restore the new HDD backup. If you have not: -> Activate the current activation on the new HDD -> Backup again -> Restore later. As far I know, you have backed-up the activation from another hard disk instead of the current and are trying to restore the activation on a new HDD.
Same hard drive from the backup also? Well, the operating system are rejecting the activation and is not possible revert it unless activating again. Activation rejection is directly interlaced with the hardware and the operating system edition. You can copy manually this files and will not work anyway.
That is correct. I was just activated, did a new backup and restore and failed the restore again. It failed at the same spot on the last log. Something weird is going on. Is it possible that even though I was activated, a trace of the original hard drive is left in one of the restored files? I think I am going to try and do a clean install of plain windows 8 pro and see if I run into the same issue. EDIT: I just finished the clean install of pro and installed wmc. Did a backup and restore with no problem. So it looks like I wont have any more problems. Thank you for all of your help Josh.
Josh Cell Sorry for Off-Topic ace2: Auto Activation When Installing Windows 8 Pro Using KMS: FOR Volume (gvlk) SERIAL (WORKING) 1.PID.txt Copy & Paste [PID] Value=PUT YOUR Windows 8 Pro SERIAL HERE INTO New Text Document & Save As PID.txt COPY PID.txt TO sources FOLDER OF INSTALL MEDIA (e.g USB STICK / ISO) 2.setupcomplete.cmd Copy & Paste @echo off pushd "%~dp0" cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk PUT YOUR Windows 8 Pro SERIAL HERE cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /skms win8kms4.mooo.com cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ato cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ckms popd INTO New Text Document & Save As setupcomplete.cmd COPY setupcomplete.cmd TO sources\$OEM$\$$\SETUP\SCRIPTS OF INSTALL MEDIA (e.g USB STICK / ISO) FOR Retail SERIAL (NOT TESTED) 1.PID.txt Copy & Paste [PID] Value=PUT YOUR Windows 8 Pro SERIAL HERE INTO New Text Document & Save As PID.txt COPY PID.txt TO sources FOLDER OF INSTALL MEDIA (e.g USB STICK / ISO) 2.setupcomplete.cmd Copy & Paste @echo off pushd "%~dp0" cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk PUT YOUR Windows 8 Pro SERIAL HERE cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ato popd INTO New Text Document & Save As setupcomplete.cmd COPY setupcomplete.cmd TO sources\$OEM$\$$\SETUP\SCRIPTS OF INSTALL MEDIA (e.g USB STICK / ISO) All Done.