Sudden complaint that Windows is not genuine - some questions

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Published on 2009-12-27T01:48:38Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 0:03 UTC
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Hi,

I used to use VMWare Workstation and made several VMs with Win Server 2008, which worked fine. My first tasks were to setup RDP, updates, and activate the OS.

I deleted Workstation and thus did not have my VMs available to use for about 2 months. Now I have VMWare Server 2.0.2 as I this is free and I am going to get Hyper-V on a host Win Server in about March, but when I have accessed one of my VMs (haven't tried the others yet), it complains that the copy of Windows is not genuine.

I now have a black screen but can access all my apps on the VM. Will the OS eventually shut me out from accessing it?

I got my key from the Action Pack but the standard R2 key has been taken down and replaced with the Enteprise R2 key. I have Enterprise R2 but apparently the autorun is corrupt!

Thanks

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