How does windows activation server return decommissioned volume key quantity?

Question

Is there an intuitive way system administrators or help desk persons can let the activation server know volume license have not exceeded the actual number of computers with OS installed? The system seems rigged never tracking total volume license key as new machines replace old ones with same OS level. The activation server is returning incorrect error "Acquisition of End User License failed. hr=0xC004C020" volume license key has been exceeded when indeed it has not. Or correctly track Windows 10 upgrades where 7 has not been fully removed. How exactly does a non AI computer software know what the actual total of volume license in use are by an automated activation system?

Answer 1

What multiple machines are you talking about? Hence it was Ghost C drive causing windows to not boot. All past versions of NTFS partitions using NTboot loader automatically assign drive letter to find NTKernel.exe in \System32 directory and shift the drive letter when more are added into the group. The new Boot folder, Boot partition and BCD loader are poorly designed and cause unnecessary boot issues. Like I said Win7 even marked a good 1 TB drive as invalid when it only had to delete the C: partition that Ghost had installed in 25MB free space. Issue resolved :-)

Answer 2

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the link but was more curios as home owner just got hit by Win7 issue to image copy to new HDD via Ghost 2003. It really fubar the last partition with IBM DOS7. Others had same issue one AVG sys file stops safe mode from loading other after the file in the below link.

The issue is Ghost2K3 marked the last partition Active C: was 25MB free at the end. The only way back to Win7 via fdisk.c change active to NTFS boot partition. Oddly Auto repair refuses to mark the NTFS volume dirty, if it even is. The same drive added to good OS sets the dynamic volume as invalid. Yet it loads hundreds of files until it gets to AVG sysfile others mention, then reboots.

Have any ideas what is going on? Even an in place upgrade does the same reboot never loads the startup files after removing the DVD from the drive on restart? Hence my hesitation to spend $200 on Win11 as Win10 is plagued with issues I waited but need more disk space.

https://support.avg.com/answers?id=9060N000000HiJ9QAK

As you are dealing with multiple machines, I suggest that you use the other better suited Community:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/tags/60/windows

Answer 3

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the link but was more curios as home owner just got hit by Win7 issue to image copy to new HDD via Ghost 2003. It really fubar the last partition with IBM DOS7. Others had same issue one AVG sys file stops safe mode from loading other after the file in the below link.

The issue is Ghost2K3 marked the last partition Active C: was 25MB free at the end. The only way back to Win7 via fdisk.c change active to NTFS boot partition. Oddly Auto repair refuses to mark the NTFS volume dirty, if it even is. The same drive added to good OS sets the dynamic volume as invalid. Yet it loads hundreds of files until it gets to AVG sysfile others mention, then reboots.

Have any ideas what is going on? Even an in place upgrade does the same reboot never loads the startup files after removing the DVD from the drive on restart? Hence my hesitation to spend $200 on Win11 as Win10 is plagued with issues I waited but need more disk space.

https://support.avg.com/answers?id=9060N000000HiJ9QAK

Answer 4

We only deal with Home Users here.

And we don't work for Microsoft.

in fact Microsoft never even looks at these Windows 7 forums.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/existing-customer/activation-centers