Motherboard Windows license

[YngviCrimson]

So i just recently upgraded from 1150 to 1151, and i did a fresh start on my windows, now i noticed that it wants me to activate my windows is there any way for me to transfer the old windows from my other motherboard ?

 

[DSzymborski]

So i just recently upgraded from 1150 to 1151, and i did a fresh start on my windows, now i noticed that it wants me to activate my windows is there any way for me to transfer the old windows from my other motherboard ?

How did you obtain your previous Windows? And is it Windows 10? So long as it's not a pre-installed and it's Windows 10 and you've connected it to a Microsfot account, Microsoft has eased up in the restrictions significantly since the Anniversary Update. If these things aren't true, then it's trickier.

 

[YngviCrimson]

So i just recently upgraded from 1150 to 1151, and i did a fresh start on my windows, now i noticed that it wants me to activate my windows is there any way for me to transfer the old windows from my other motherboard ?

How did you obtain your previous Windows? And is it Windows 10? So long as it's not a pre-installed and it's Windows 10 and you've connected it to a Microsfot account, Microsoft has eased up in the restrictions significantly since the Anniversary Update. If these things aren't true, then it's trickier.

I talked to a guy from windows chat support, and he told me that the key is coded into my old motherboard, now how i obtained windows in the first place is that it came with the very first PC i owned it was written on the PC case, and now that is a very long time ago, then one day my hard drive crashed and i took it into a repair shop and they gave me a new hard disk SSD with the same license and i have been upgrading my pc since then and this old PC case was lost a long time ago, i thought the windows was withing my hard disk not my motherboard.

 

[NDDU Julius BSIT]

If the motherboard is an OEM, then yes the key is hard-coded to the BIOS of the motherboard itself so transferring might be a problem unless you have your Windows account linked to that key

 

[YngviCrimson]

It's just hard to believe that my only option is to buy a new license just because i cant transfer my license 😀

 

[Jesse_20]

Prebuilt computers come with an OEM version of windows that is only usable on that motherboard that came with the system, as it's hardcoded into bios. If you had a sticker with a product key on it, then you should be able to transfer the key to a new system.

There are keyfinders available that can scour a system and find various windows keys, but you would need to have the windows system drive that had the key, and this does not work on newer versions of windows.

If you reinstalled windows onto that same original drive, you are now also looking at data recovery software to recover the old system data, then using the keyfinder to scour that old system drive for keys.

Just make sure the keyfinder is compatible with your version of windows.

If you use a microsoft account (with windows 10) and had the key tied to your user account, simply logging in as that user would activate it.

 

[YngviCrimson]

If the motherboard is an OEM, then yes the key is hard-coded to the BIOS of the motherboard itself so transferring might be a problem unless you have your Windows account linked to that key

I managed to fix it, through my microsoft account, it's activated thank you didint think of that