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Oreo Huppe
My laptop hard drive has died and I am replacing it with a new SSD. I am downloading a tool from Microsoft's website to install Windows 10 on the new drive, but how do I activate it? Windows 10 came with the laptop so I don't have a key stored anywhere except on the completely toast hard drive. And I don't think I had the foresight to link the system to a Microsoft account. Any other way to get the system activated using the original key? The laptop is out of warranty btw.
If the license key came with your laptop, it means it is a OEM key, which is bound to motherboard. Windows 10 should be activated by default on new SSD. However, OEM key is not transferable and can be only used on one device.
I recently got a new NVMe drive to replace my existing SATA SSD. I did a clean install of Windows 11 and now am unable to activate. The previous install was an upgrade through the insider program. Tried going through the troubleshooting app with no success. Choosing "I recently changed hardware" also fails with a message that it is unable to activate as the digital license has already been activated. The only thing that changed was the hard drive and this is my first attempt to reactivate Windows 11 since the upgrade. I doubt there is anything that can be done as I just spent the morning trying to get this resolved through MS Support before finally being directed here, but if anyone knows of a solution I would love to hear it. If not I'll just switch back to my SATA drive.
Yeah that's what I ended up doing. Unfortunately when I boot to that drive the new drive no longer shows up in Windows. If I format it through setup (which is the only place I can currently see the NVMe) it blows up the SATA SSD so that it will no longer boot. Strangely if I reinstall Windows to the NVMe I can boot the SATA again but the NVMe is again missing in action. This is so bizarre. What a way to spend 6hrs. @Little_Joe
Hello, I recently purchased a PowerSpec G436 and noticed the MSI Z490 Plus mainboard has another available m.2 slot. I was going to purchase a WD 1TB Black SSD when I noticed it's faster than the pre-installed WD 1TB Blue in the PowerSpec. Because of this, I'd like to move the operating system over to it.
Can I simply install the WD Black drive in the second m.2 slot, clone the entire WD Blue drive in the first m.2 slot to it, then swap their slots and wipe the WD Blue to be used as storage? If so, should I expect any issues with the Windows 10 Pro version that came pre-activated after cloning the OS drive?
Thanks for the quick response @Landennnn! Yes, I'll be using EaseUS Todo Backup to clone the entire drive, ensuring boot and recovery partitions are retained. Good to know about the activation, thanks very much!
Afterwards I swapped the drive's slots and booted it up but it the computer was still booting to the OS on the old SSD now in slot M2_2. (After the clone I placed a text file in the root directory of the OS partitions on each to help identify "Old-Drive.txt" vs "New-Drive.txt" just in case)
I pulled the old SSD in slot M2_2 and booted the computer with only the new SSD in slot M2_1. After successfully logging into the OS, I shut it down again to re-insert the old SSD into slot M2_2 again.
Afterwards the computer booted correctly to the OS on the new SSD in slot M2_1 and I was then able to use "diskpart" from the cmd to "clean" the old drive in M2_2 to reformat it to be used as a storage drive.
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I was in a meeting at work on Monday (in person, in the office, in 2021 - can you believe it?) when I received a frantic text message from my son who had arrived at university ready to start his classes for the day. He had opened the lid of his laptop, only to discover he was locked out by some kind of blue screen prompting for a 48 digit password! Fearing the worst, I gave him a call - was it malware? Ransomware? Had he been to an inappropriate website? No.
This came as quite a surprise, given we had NEVER set BitLocker up on his machine, and nothing had changed on his laptop since the night before when he was happily using it at home. Naturally since we hadn't actually set up and/or activated BitLocker, it was immediately obvious that we didn't have the 48 digit password required to access his laptop - and being 48 digits long, the chances of guessing the 48 digits in the correct order were astronomically low...
- Lots of people have experienced the same problem (which didn't make me feel any better), and
- some versions of MS Windows (my son has Windows 10 Pro - and of course this is one of those versions that) will AUTOMATICALLY AND SILENTLY ACTIVATE BITLOCKER AND ENCRYPT YOUR HARD DRIVE as soon as some conditions have been met! Unfortunately for us, the trigger condition seems to be utilising a Microsoft account to do anything on your computer.
Then it dawned on me that he got his laptop when he was still in High School, and (as instructed by the school) he had used his high school login to install Microsoft Office, so if the BitLocker recovery key was stored anywhere at all, it would probably be in a Microsoft account tied to his old high school login (which we no longer have access to, and is unlikely to still be active even if we did).
Over the next two nights I googled, I begged, I tried every option I could find to get the laptop to boot normally, including options that were marked "Dell Accepted Solution" on the Dell website - all to no avail. Unfortunately, the hard drive was unable to be decrypted or accessed without the recovery key that we don't have, because Microsoft in their wisdom decided that the silent activation and encryption of his hard drive was a good option... no doubt we agreed to it somewhere deep down inside the bowels of the end user licence agreement, but it doesn't make it right, or particularly palatable.
Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not against BitLocker, encryption in general or Microsoft as an organisation, but wouldn't it be sensible to NOT silently encrypt someone's hard drive? Surely some kind of notification process could be undertaken here? Or perhaps simply STOP THINKING YOU KNOW BETTER THAN YOUR CUSTOMERS and leave their decision to encrypt their hard drive (or not) to them! How about, since the idea of automatically storing the BitLocker recovery key in a Microsoft account was the one decided on, perhaps the recovery key could be automatically stored in ANY Microsoft account that is used to access or install software on a given machine? Might have come in handy on this occasion!
hi every one.i accidently formmated my hard drive and lost my original windows 10 product key.is there any ways to take my windows product key with my device serial number or other uniqe information from my device.thanks every one
The first time that you connect to the Internet, your "digital entitlement" (obtained when you first installed Windows 10 on the same hardware) will be leveraged, and Windows will "activate", at no cost to you.
I'm trying to add a network drive (azure file share) to an azure windows vm right after its creation. I want to automate it, so I use the Custom script extension but I'm getting some issues.The network drive is created for Azure FileShare. The below is the code that allows me to add the drive File Share:
This script works fine when it is executed manually from the terminal and executing the script.ps1 file that contains this code. But it doesn't work when using Custom script extension, the drive appears as disconnected network drive (Z:)
I've just had to deactivate/activate after replacing the IDE boot drive with a new, larger SATA drive, i.e the PC will henceforth boot from SATA. I had transferred the entire IDE drive using Acronis True Image, then disconnected the IDE and removed it from the PC. I recovered the disk image to the new SATA drive. The SATA drive booted up immediately. No problems with SATA drivers or anything. (And this is on Windows XP nota bene!)
However, when I started Edit Pro 2015 Plus, the very first screen I saw was a warning about new hardware. Then I was guided through various popups to deactivate the program first, which would then allow me to "activate a new device". I must say, the screens are not awfully explanatory here. I was expecting to have to telephone Magix to get the prog running again.
Anyway, it finally worked and said that the product was now successfully activated. On one of the screens I do recall seeing something like: "You can only deactivate once per month..." However, nowhere is this entire process of commissioning a new drive explained in any of the documentation!
I very often swap my boot drive. Currently I have many disks that I use. I make my copies using Acronis True Image. My disks are removable by opening a 'door' on the front of the computer. This is a most convenient solution for me. If I install software I don't like then I just take another disk with a previous backup. I like to have various disks just in case something goes wrong. I remember I had to constantly re-activate MEP 2015 but up to now I hadn't linked this to my swapping disks. I swap disks maybe 2-3 times a month, it depends. The disks are not necessarily the same size/brand.
My computer hardware normally remains unchanged. Same m/b, same CPU. However, all my disks are removable. Not only is this highly convenient, but I can fit a 2.5" disk and a 3.5" disk in one 5.25" tray. A great space saver and much tidier/faster than using USB drives.
I used to use multiple drawer-type drive racks too, but have gone away from them now. But each time you stick a different rack (i.e. drive) in, Magix is going to think it's a different PC, thus requiring the deactivate/reactivate malarkey. There's no way around it that I know of, and Magix are rather cagey about the deactivation/reactivation process, as if they'd really prefer customers to buy more licences instead. That would mean that you'd need a separate licence for each drive rack! A costly solution.
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