Hello, a long time ago, our family invested in a family laptop. That laptop was an ASUS G60VX with a completely legitimate version of Windows 7 Home Premium. About a month ago, I got my hands on a DELL Inspiron 570 Desktop computer with many missing parts. I replaced as many parts as I could, one of those being the hard drive. The only hard drive that was in the house and not being used was the one inside of the ASUS Laptop. I plugged in the hard drive and everything was working as usual, except that apparently something happened to the validity of the OS. Now, this wasn't a big issue for me at first, I just closed out of the messages telling me to validify it, and that has worked for months on end. But recently I just realized that the Windows Firewall on that OS was completely corrupted. I have searched for multiple weeks and spent many sleepless nights scouring through the internet trying to fix this Firewall to no prevail. Absolutely nothing I have found, nobody I have contacted, not one single soul can fix this Firewall. I have performed multiple virus scans with multiple antivirus programs, I have tried running /SCANNOW, I have tried using a different firewall, I have tried editing registries, changing permissions, using windows repair tools, running a countless amount of command prompt commands, neither contacting Microsoft support or ASUS support has helped in any way shape or form. A while later I decided I had enough of the constant bs that this Firewall had put me through. I wanted to do a complete reinstall of windows, come to find out, that I need a product key to do that. The ASUS laptop product key sticker was completely unreadable. People suggested lightly rubbing led over it to fill in the rubbed off parts, I was able to get a few letters out but only about 6 or 7 let alone the 25 required. I found a whole plethora of people with the same issue that said that they solved it by running a vbs script that found their product key. I tried this but upon entering it on the Microsoft webpage I was given this error:
We encountered a problem with your request. Please visit Microsoft Support Contact Us page for assistance. Refer to Message Code 715-123130 and Transaction ID 25565af7-03a7-43f3-887a-861bca52ea41.
I'm not sure what to do anymore. I have been thoroughly defeated by this operating system and would be so grateful if somebody could provide any useful knowledge. Thank you in advance.
We encountered a problem with your request. Please visit Microsoft Support Contact Us page for assistance. Refer to Message Code 715-123130 and Transaction ID 25565af7-03a7-43f3-887a-861bca52ea41.
I'm not sure what to do anymore. I have been thoroughly defeated by this operating system and would be so grateful if somebody could provide any useful knowledge. Thank you in advance.