Windows 7 product key invalid

[YaoNg]

Hi,

I re-installed Windows 7 recently, but I'm getting a Windows 7 activation issue where it's claiming the product key (as per sticker) at the back of my PC is invalid.

I've gone through the Microsoft Support pages and it claims this:

"The product ID number you entered is not supported in the country that you have selected. Enter another product ID number or select a different support option below."

When I enter the key manually I get this:

"We could not find your product ID number automatically. Please enter a product ID number below."

Any thoughts? Google isn't helping for once.

Cheers,

Yao

[dave87]

Phone the activation line, when it fails it'll put you through to an operator - when you explain the situation, they should be able to assist.

[george1979]

Yep what Dave said. I had to do this very recently. Just be prepared as you will likely get asked to phone another number (for the UK activations or something). When I called I got thru to same line again! Took 4 separate calls to finally get thru to the right person but they did get it sorted.
Good luck.

[Demonwar]

It's probably OEM, doesn't work though normal activations usually. Sometimes you can change reg keys and it might work, but usually the operator should work it out for you.

[YaoNg]

Yes. Strangely enough, I didn't even get as far as speaking to someone. It's activated my OS with a random product key now. Madness.