I went to your WEB site last, so sorry if all this is too basic...
Sounds like it might an OEM issue with the license. (More below)
I would venture a guess MS is blocking you since OEM licenses
are not allowed to be moved to a different machine, or in any event
using hard drive cloning to different hardware is "trouble prone" in
general......
Only one machine can be activated with "that" type of license (OEM),
unless BIOS locked, and then the BIOS code has to match the
BIOS code embedded on the OEM disk.
Put the "Windows Explorer" "disk label" into Google, and search to
see what type of disk you have.
Note that activation has always come later, so I "should" leave out
those parts of this...
If OTOH, you have a RETAIL (AKA FPP) licensed Vista,
It "should install" on any machine rated for it, if provided the proper
drivers at the right time.
Only one machine can be activated with "that" type of license. (FPP).
I believe, the answer is to install directly to ONE machine with all the
hardware "in place"... And skip all the HD swapping.
Your question seems to be missing "why" you did it this way...
And why two computers are involved.
You never mentioned "things like" sysprep, or mutiple keys...
Basically, you have me lost, so the following might not apply...
Anything that "might have" worked like that in the past has
pretty much been squashed by MS to stop "casual copying"
of the OS to different computers to avoid buying two licenses,
or to move "small-OEM" versions - (white-box or mom&pop).
If OTOH, you are doing something perfectly legal and allowed,
I fear you are just another casuality in the war about DRM.
AKA: Collateral Damage
Rick Glazier, MS-Registered Partner, OEM/System Builder
From: "christopher Charles" <
>I install Vista Ultimate on one PC. It is an HP Pavilion a1700n
>I remove the 40 GB IDE HD from the HP PC and put it into a Compaq EVO510 PC.
>Result: Vista does not boot.
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