wsealock wrote:
I'm just trying to explain what I'm doing when the problem happens. What I'm trying to say is that my starting point is a known working snapshot, i.e., when I boot from this snapshot the guest shows that its Windows installation is activated.
have you tried to reactivate ?
use the command -slmgr if facing any problem time of activation .
when you copied or move this problem sometimes happen , i solved through slmgr command .
Yours,
Satya 