Product Activation error 0x80070002

[Paul Slocum]

I'm running on a celeron PC104 board and I've built the image
successfully using TAP and the standard stuff, FBA runs okay, then it
reboots and I get to the logon screen and I get "Windows Product
Activation / A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking
the license for this computer. Error Code: 0x80070002". Can't get past
that.

Every thread or support document I find about this says it has to do
with the partition size setting, but I've tried setting the boot
partition to the EXACT size in MB of the boot partition (~11,000MB), to
5000MB as the instructions say, and to the default 1096MB, but I always
get the same error. The drive has two partitions and I'm booting XPe
off the first one (the second partition is blank).

I have FP2007 installed.

What ELSE could cause this problem?

-paul

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

1. For boot disk sizes greater than 1GB, leave the partition size as the
default (1GB).
2. Did you enter the license number correctly?

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

 

[Paul Slocum]

1. Leaving the partition size at 1024 didn't fix it.

2. I'm not aware of any license number? I entered a trial product key
when I installed the XPe dev software on my laptop, that's it.

-paul

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

This is odd.

Can you change the boot partition size? Make it smaller - 5000MB?

Are you changing any ARC paths or drive letters?


Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

 

[Guest]

Paul, did you do a dependency check before you did your build? I just had
the same problem myself. There is an article on the Microsoft website that
basically says that you can change the partition size all you want, but the
problem won't go away until you do a dependency check before you do a build.

I was building an XPe image for a 1 gigabyte compact flash. I got tired of
all of the issues associated with doing development work on compact flash, so
I switched to a 75 gigabyte hard drive. I set the partition size in the
build to 5000, but the problem wouldn't go away until I did that dependency
check.

-Mike

 

[Paul Slocum]

I tried doing one partition, exactly 1024MB. Same problem.

-paul

 

[Paul Slocum]

thanks, but I definitely did a dependency check.

-paul

 

[MARTIN SPENCE]

I've had this problem when I put the wrong data in the PID field in target
designer. Have you put anything in the PID field? It should be blank as
you are using the eval version

 

[Paul Slocum]

I never entered any PID. The "Runtime Image Licensing" options don't
show up in my settings.

-paul

 

[Paul Slocum]

Solution: I uninstalled all of the dev tools on my laptop and
reinstalled them WITHOUT Feature Pack 2007 or the updates required to
install FP 2007. Rebuilt the image and the error disappeared.

-paul