Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

[Mick]

On Wednesday, 8 January 2020 16:42:14 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
> On 08/01/20 09:26, Mick wrote:
> > The OS Product Key for a Win 7 will not work on a Win 10, unless the free
> > upgrade option had been performed before July 2016.  At least it has not
> > worked here ...  You'll need a Product Key, Digital License, or a
> > Microsoft
> > Account which has been linked to an activated Windows 10 Digital License.
>
> I don't know what the date MS announced was, but this tactic certainly
> worked after that - I did it myself. The key statement there is "NEVER
> been used". If MS recognises the key, it will fail.

This is interesting!  By a Win7 key which has "never been used" do you mean 
not even used for activating the Win7 OS?  Or never been used to upgrade Win7 
to Win10?


> (I'm actually going to have a crack at it myself again, I've just
> acquired a Win7 laptop - nice spec - that's pretty much unaltered
> original so I'm guessing it's never been re-installed and the key used.)
>
> Cheers,
> Wol

Please let us know how this goes.  I have Win7 & Win8.1 installations on 
various laptops and these were not upgraded to Win10 before the expiry 
deadline of Jul 2016 and could potentially use them on VMs for testing.
-- 
Regards,

Mick