Windows Home Server Activation Question

Discussion in 'Windows Server' started by hijak, Feb 22, 2010.

  1. FreeStyler

    FreeStyler MDL Guru

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    #21 FreeStyler, Feb 23, 2010
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  2. hijak

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    I thought you meant the ones from PP1 were good to go, I think they are in the HP Changer though as when it ran it replaced a few files, and the names looked similar :)

    It got there in the end, even though it was a longer way round :)
     
  3. FreeStyler

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    np, glad to see you have it working
     
  4. FreeStyler

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  5. hijak

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    That qs with the oembios files would make a much simplier installation. :)
     
  6. FreeStyler

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  7. ZaForD

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    I think thats the under statement of the year so far. :D
    The qs.ini seems to work better if its used with an untouched disk and from a Floppy or UFD.
     
  8. WebWacker

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    I also get the famous error when I enter the key manually during setup of WHS. When I don't enter the key during setup I need to activate WHS manually after it's installed completely. The key seems to be invalid as WHS won't activate when I enter it. After rebooting WHS it says it's activated though! To me this is confusing, but since it's activated I'm happy with it :).
     
  9. FreeStyler

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  10. WebWacker

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    I tried installing WHS with the changes mentioned above. The key was entered manually (I didn't use the qs.ini file) and all went well. So I can confirm the changes have fixed the setup issues.
    Thanks for your time and effort Freestyler!