Restoring from Cloned drive - Activation gone

[Phillip Haug]

Hi Dave,

About a year back I cloned my drive. Well today I am glad except when I put the cloned drive in the computer, everything worked but the license for MachStdMill. I am license ID 60899226.

Any ideas ?

[DaveCVI]

Hi,
Well... MSM can't be installed by dropping a cloned drive into a PC - it's a real program, has multiple libraries it uses (not all of which live in the mach folder), for these reasons MSM comes complete with an installer etc.

Do this:
1) Run the MSM installer. Reinstall the same MSM version - just let it install on top of itself. That will get all the bits & pieces into the proper places. No need to create new profiles etc - the existing ones will do fine.

2) Reactivate MSM (ref page, activation button. Online activation is the easiest and fastest method). That will have MSM go talk to the license server and then all will (probably) be fine (I'm betting that you reverted to a clone HDD due to some hardware failure.. so MSM will probably think this PC is different from the prior PC).

If any issues crop up, let me know.

Dave

[Phillip Haug]

Thanks Dave,

Yes my drive died so I went to my cloned drive. I am not on the internet since I do not want anything more than needed on the machine. Last time I had to do the proxy activation. Do you suggest the same then?

Thanks

[DaveCVI]

Your choice -
proxy activation is fine - it's just more complicated to do, but the only choice when the MSM PC is not online.
or you an connect the MSM PC to do the net to do the online activation and then disconnect it afterwards.

Dave