Classmate Image Not Genuine

[Programming3335]

That's what we did. It gave us an error. We ignored it for a while, but now that I'm not handling multiple other things on the software front, this has gotten a high enough priority to be actively worried about.

[Mark McLeod]

So you imaged an E09 Classmate with an E11 image?
Or was that just mistyping?

The E09 Restoration stick will have the license file included unless it was corrupted in the stick copies/installation.

Check your activation code by right-clicking on Start -> Computer to get properties, scroll to the bottom where you can choose activate now and the windows license should be listed there. You can try activate now, too, I suppose.

The best I could suggest after that would be to reimage the Classmate (with an E09 stick) and try again.

[Programming3335]

Yeah, that was a typo. I meant to say that we had imaged with the E09 key.

I looked in the My Computer -> Properties dialog, and the product key that is displayed there has zeroes in it... which means that it's not valid. (The key activator thing doesn't accept zeroes or Os, I'd imagine to avoid any confusion between the two.)

I guess we'll reimage it shortly, seeing as how we don't have much of a choice at this point.

[Mark McLeod]

There is another option and that's phone activation.
Some people have done that without any trouble.
Microsoft just produces an activation code for you to enter.