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Last time windows 8.1 didn't activate as it said my product key had been used too many times , then I phones up and they gave me activation over the phone will that still work ? It stated to hold onto code for future activations
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08-21-2015, 01:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-21-2015, 01:37 PM by Britec.)
When you changed the Motherboard and CPU you would of been forced to active Windows again, was this successful? I think you could run into a problem with activation and may have to do it by phone. Its also a OEM Version which would force another activation due to hardware change.
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Hi Britec I just changed the CPU , I then had to phone Microsoft who then gave me a code (A , and six digits all the way up to H ) then they did state to hold onto this code for future activations , so if I change the hard drive will this code still work?
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OK so that's good you have a fully activated copy of Windows.
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So has this issue been resolved? or where are we at the moment and is there anything else we can do to help?
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yes it should work if they said to hold onto it for future activation
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Phi britec not resolved he I'm going to phone technician now and see what he has to say currently my existing drive won't boot .
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Hi ,
The latest thing in my technical issue , I have been down in person to the repair shop , my technician states he still ,has problem booting from the drive , in my machine he placed a 80gb support drive with windows 8.1 then upgrade to windows 10 , then cloaned the disk drive using Norton ghost so basically both drives are exactly the same , tells the uefi bios to boot from my hard drive , and it wants none of it and refuses to boot from that hard drive .
He says to give him till 12 pm tomorrow , where tonight hell have words with some of his fellow techs that he knows see if they had the same problem ..... He wanted to coax me into buying a 160 gig hard drive , but one of the reasons I went for my existing system is because of the 2 to hard drive , so won't be down grading , all the hard drives I've seen are like sata 3 hard drives my motherboard is sata 2 but I know that they are backwards compatible
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you can install windows 8.1 on the hard drive but when upgraded to windows 10
then the problem will start ? from what I understand so far maybe windows 10 are compatible with your computer
