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On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 1:01 AM Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On 06/01/20 19:55, Michael Jones wrote: |
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> > As for windows 10 licensing, don't trust me on this blindly, but your |
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> > license should be tied to the hardware fingerprint of the laptop. So |
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> > even installing windows fresh on your new SSD should result in Windows |
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> > activating automatically. In fact, you might want to take this |
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> > opportunity to try that out, to get a completely fresh installation |
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> > without the decade of old cruft built up by window's lack of a package |
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> > manager. |
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> Two points with this - firstly if (like me) you DON'T have an MS |
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> account, this fingerprint is not stored anywhere so that won't work. |
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> Secondly, the fingerprint is likely stored on the hard drive somewhere |
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> so if you clone the hard drive you are hopefully good, and thirdly it's |
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> possible that the new hard drive will break the fingerprint so you're |
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> SOL whatever you do. However, in that last case, if you ring the |
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> licencing help line they MAY give you a new code because it is, still, |
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> technically the same laptop. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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I don't mean to continue the windows discussion on the gentoo list, but I |
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wanted to point out that this is incorrect |
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I don't have a microsoft account at all, and regularly reactivate Windows |
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10 Home / Pro using the hardware fingerprint method using completely clean |
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installations on factory-new harddrives with existing hardware. The |
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fingerprint is stored on Microsoft's activation servers somewhere. I don't |
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know how it works beyond that it's not required that you have a Microsoft |
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account to use it. |
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