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

[Daniel Frey]

On 1/7/20 8:58 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:52 AM Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com
> <mailto:michaelkintzios@×××××.com>> wrote:
> >
> > This is getting a tad O/T, since we're talking about activation of a
> non-
> > Gentoo OS, but here it goes:
> >
>
> I completely agree. I wasn't expecting the conversation to go this
> direction when I posted. I'm happy to participate if others want to.
>
> > On Tuesday, 7 January 2020 00:39:19 GMT Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> > >    I'm going to let the machine sit overnight and see if it activates
> > > automatically.
> >
> > It should activate as long as it is connected to the Internet, but
> there are
> > two different ways of activating Windows 10 manually, should you not
> do so
> > during the installation procedure.
> >
>
> After maybe 16 hours it didn't activate but logically I don't know why
> it would have. I've installed Win 10 using the M$ install tool writing
> to a USB flash drive but I'm not given any product IDs/Keys. M$ would
> have had to determine on their own with no help from me this was a
> reinstall and generously activated it which I think is asking too much.
>
> Owing that I'm not 100% sure the previous install was actually Win 10
> Pro, having updated from Win 7 with their free conversion to Win 10,
> I'm going to put the old drive back in, double check what version of
> Win 10 I was using and then try again if I installed the wrong version
> this time.
>
> On a more Linux note I'll build a bootable USB drive with clonezilla
> and see about cloning the old drive to the new SDD that way. that sort
> of solution is why I posted here in the first place. Trying the Win 10
> install and hoping it worked was just an easy 1-day experiment.
>
> Thanks all,
> Mark
>
> P.S. - I'd love to get back to running Gentoo one of these days. For
> those of us that wanted a stable machine with just a couple of testing
> packages, especially as the machines become older and the software
> becomes larger, it just became too many hours building code,
> especially on these older laptops. Kubuntu has worked well enough for
> me be there's no better community that you here at gentoo-user for
> straight forward technical discussion and I want to thank everyone
> here for years and years of good times and good information.
>
>
As mentioned earlier you need your Windows 7 key for activation. If you 
have to reenter the key sometimes the Windows UI is dubious and doesn't 
offer a clear-cut way to do this. To get around it, open Powershell and 
use `slmgr /ipk <your windows 7 key>` to install the key you have.

Dan