Smartdisk backup is Running: (Stalled) but shows Writing to media (4046252)

Product: Netvault Smartdisk
Version: All
OS Version: Windows/Linux
Module & Version: N/A
Application version: N/A

Description; Backups are in a status of Running; (Stalled) Writing to media.

Symptoms: Backups to Smartdisk are showing that they are still running however no transfer of data is occurring.
Status shows the backups as Stalled.
Netvault logs do not show any specific Warnings or Errors involving the Smartdisk device.

Running the commands;
\foundation\bin\smartdisk.bat status
and
\foundation\bin\smartdisk.bat config --show

Yielded the following message that repeats itself.

*** C:/cygwin/home/buildbot/buildslave/smartdisk-windows-x86_64/build/k6/found
ation/source/libraries/essentials/context.c:444 - Failed assertion: bSuccess

Reasons:
Checking Device Manager and right clicking the Smartdisk > Status we see that the Smartdisk is unlicensed.
Also machine ID is now different from the original one on record.