error 80040507

[Guest]

Hi all,
I have installed am alternative o/s on a second hard drive as a test - not
on a partition of my windows hard drive - and everything seemed fine until a
few moments ago when i rebooted windows (about the 20th time of doing so
without problems) and received the following error code and a message about
windows acivation: error 80040507.

My Win XP Home is genuine, was activate, up to date and has been running
fine for at least six months.

Any help on what I should do next, greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

 

[Guest]

update:
I have loaded the recovery console from my windows cd and logged into my
administrator account.
Now, im stuck!! lol

Any help greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

 

[Guest]

Found the solution for anyone else who encounters this error.

It turned out that by making my windows drive accessible via my linux drive,
i had inadvertently set the windows folder and more importantly, the wpa.dbl
file as 'read-only' to "prevent causing any problems2 (haha) from linux!

See
here for further info.