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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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