I've seen the threads about migrating to a new computer. And, I understand why those require a reinstall. But, simply upgrading a hard drive with a byte for byte clone should not require this, should it?
Every other application (gaming rig with 100s of games installed) all run fine. But, RF throws a 21051 unknown product code.
The ONLY thing I can think that would be different between the two pieces of hardware are the serial number and maybe the volume ID.
Any chance a serial spoofer using the old drive's serial # might work?
only reason I'm hesitant to do a reinstall is this machine doesn't have an optical drive. IIRC installing over the network took ages, and creating an iso on a flash drive is nearly as big a hassle--plus I only have v7. So, after all that I still need to upgrade to 7.5. Seems an awful big runaround for something that should take 30 seconds to overcome.
Every other application (gaming rig with 100s of games installed) all run fine. But, RF throws a 21051 unknown product code.
The ONLY thing I can think that would be different between the two pieces of hardware are the serial number and maybe the volume ID.
Any chance a serial spoofer using the old drive's serial # might work?
only reason I'm hesitant to do a reinstall is this machine doesn't have an optical drive. IIRC installing over the network took ages, and creating an iso on a flash drive is nearly as big a hassle--plus I only have v7. So, after all that I still need to upgrade to 7.5. Seems an awful big runaround for something that should take 30 seconds to overcome.