Essentially what happened in the upgrade from SL to Lion was that the bootcamp utility, along with all windows drivers and software were upgraded.
According to windows 7, the upgraded machine became a brand new machine which was not authorized to run that instillation of windows. Now, the obvious answer to this is, revalidate. Do this and all is well. If you are self-motivated and organized and you take 5 minutes to do this right away, and microsoft counts your keys properly, you are golden. None of this applied to my client. Close now if you don't want shock value. Read on if you enjoy being appalled and horrified. The client called me out 25 days post upgrade and then hunted for his windows cd for an hour while my metre ran. unfortunately it seems he threw it out by mistake. He then called me out 35 days post upgrade and I was able to retrieve his key from the pooched up windows partition. Of course it was too late to activate. I called microsoft to see if I could get activated. They miscounted his keys and refused to activate, saying he had the instalation on too many machines. Nonsense, it was only ever installed once. So after numerous support calls, several mysterious disconnects, 4 or 5 non-english speaking and completely careless support staff, I finally convinced some one to reset his key. I was then able to activate his windows. I then created him a terabyte image backup of his windows installation to replace the disk he threw out. The cash register rang often that week, but what a pain in the arse. Best, Erik Burggraaf Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service, starting at $0.45 per card or $35 per hundred cards. Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2012-07-25, at 4:46 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > OK. Now I'm really confused. You're saying that installing ML is going to > mess up bootcamp? I might just copy the ML install file to a USB drive for > now until I can get a bit more clerification. What kinds of problems were > caused by the upgrade? > Missy > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of erik burggraaf > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 4:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Mountain Lyon and VM users please report in > > No, that's ligit. Bootcamp is still a product of and intergrated with mac > OS. Upgrading from snow leopard to lion wrecked bootcamp and windows, to my > client's detriment. I got to bill a bunch of hours out of it, which I > would'a ratherred leave on the table. It was a mess. > > Best, > Erik Burggraaf > Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service, starting at > $0.45 per card or $35 per hundred cards. > Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 > or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > On 2012-07-25, at 3:05 PM, Chris Gilland wrote: > >> Bootcamp is on a whole seperet partition, so I really doubt it. >> >> Chris. >> >> On Jul 25, 2012, at 2:42 PM, "Missy Hoppe" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Does this affect Bootcamp as well? I don't use VM, but am slightly nervous >>> that something might happen to bootcamp. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Caron >>> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 2:28 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Mountain Lyon and VM users please report in >>> >>> Hi listers, >>> >>> Anyone who has upgraded to Mountain Lyon and who had a VM Fusion >>> installation, please let us know if the machine is >>> still working nicely under Mountain Lyon. I'm especially interested in >>> those with a JAWS VM as I had authorization problems >>> in the past. >>> >>> Thanks for any reports. >>> Eric Caron >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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