unable to access vista

[Guest]

After upgrading my hardware, my vista business version requires activation in
3 days.

However on the first day, after I use MSCONFIG to disable all startup items
and reboot a couple times (also entered safe mode twice), vista suddenly went
straight to black screen after I login, with a note "This copy of vista is
not genuine" at the right lower corner of the screen -- which is NOT true!

Now I'm screwed. I can't do anything after login, I can see the mouse move
but nothing else. I can't enter the safe mode (being alerted that I can't do
activation under safe mode blah blah...). I can't find a restore point when
booting from the vista CD (says no restore point is found, though I do
remember the system partition is monitored). I can't "upgrade" the system
since I can't run vista setup in the system.

What I did is installing a clean system on another partition. Is there any
way that I can get my old system back to work? I really don't want to do all
the re-installations and configurations...

 

[Michael Solomon]

After upgrading my hardware, my vista business version requires activation
in
3 days.

However on the first day, after I use MSCONFIG to disable all startup
items
and reboot a couple times (also entered safe mode twice), vista suddenly
went
straight to black screen after I login, with a note "This copy of vista is
not genuine" at the right lower corner of the screen -- which is NOT
true!

Now I'm screwed. I can't do anything after login, I can see the mouse move
but nothing else. I can't enter the safe mode (being alerted that I can't
do
activation under safe mode blah blah...). I can't find a restore point
when
booting from the vista CD (says no restore point is found, though I do
remember the system partition is monitored). I can't "upgrade" the system
since I can't run vista setup in the system.

What I did is installing a clean system on another partition. Is there any
way that I can get my old system back to work? I really don't want to do
all
the re-installations and configurations...

Boot the system, start tapping F8 on the keyboard, this should eventually
bring up a menu that includes safe mode. When you get into safe mode, run
activation. If you cannot activate over the internet, use the activate by
phone option in the activation dialog box, it will give you a phone number
to call.

 

[Stephan Rose]

Boot the system, start tapping F8 on the keyboard, this should eventually
bring up a menu that includes safe mode. When you get into safe mode, run
activation. If you cannot activate over the internet, use the activate by
phone option in the activation dialog box, it will give you a phone number
to call.

Maybe you didn't read the part of the post where he says that he is unable
to go into safe mode because activation is not possible from save mode?

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[Michael Solomon]

Maybe you didn't read the part of the post where he says that he is unable
to go into safe mode because activation is not possible from save mode?
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Stephen, if I'm not mistaken, in the past, you could activate from Safe Mode
as long as you did it by phone as Internet access is often not available
from there but you could get the phone number of the activation center. In
either case, a legal, non-activated version of XP or Vista should only go
into a limited mode that would allow for activation.

His statement, to me anyway, was a little ambiguous as I couldn't be sure if
he meant he actually couldn't go into safe mode to activate because he was
receiving such a message when trying to activate or he was being blocked
from getting into safe mode by such a message.

 

[Michael Solomon]

After upgrading my hardware, my vista business version requires activation
in
3 days.

However on the first day, after I use MSCONFIG to disable all startup
items
and reboot a couple times (also entered safe mode twice), vista suddenly
went
straight to black screen after I login, with a note "This copy of vista is
not genuine" at the right lower corner of the screen -- which is NOT
true!

Now I'm screwed. I can't do anything after login, I can see the mouse move
but nothing else. I can't enter the safe mode (being alerted that I can't
do
activation under safe mode blah blah...). I can't find a restore point
when
booting from the vista CD (says no restore point is found, though I do
remember the system partition is monitored). I can't "upgrade" the system
since I can't run vista setup in the system.

What I did is installing a clean system on another partition. Is there any
way that I can get my old system back to work? I really don't want to do
all
the re-installations and configurations...

Kun, is this an OEM version of Vista that, perhaps, came with this computer?
If yes and you've changed the hardware as stated, you need to contact the PC
manufacturer for help with this issue as that would be the likely reason you
are unable to access even limited functions which would give you the ability
to activate.