windows cant activate.

Sep 4, 2018
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I changed my motherboard in my pc and when i boot up my pc, there is an issue with my windows activation. i linked my microsoft account to my key before i changed and i am even logged into the microsoft account now and it says that it is not activated even though it was before hand.


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my troubleshooting also doesnt work so thats fun!
 
Solution
Install windows on another drive.
If you don't have any other drive, then shrink current windows partition by 50GB, create a new partition and install windows there.
You have to install same version of windows - Windows 10 Home (Pro version you will not be able to activate this way).
Fully update windows - install all security updates. Then use windows activation troubleshooter to transfer license.

After this your old windows installation will activate also BTW.
Sep 4, 2018
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should i uninstall everything when i do so?

also i dont have my old key all i know is that it was activated with my outlook
 
Install windows on another drive.
If you don't have any other drive, then shrink current windows partition by 50GB, create a new partition and install windows there.
You have to install same version of windows - Windows 10 Home (Pro version you will not be able to activate this way).
Fully update windows - install all security updates. Then use windows activation troubleshooter to transfer license.

After this your old windows installation will activate also BTW.
 
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