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Cloning a drive with Win 8 OS

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slicksilver

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Hello all

I recently availaled the $40 Win 8 upgrade offer and installed the OS on my existing SSD. I quickly ran out of space and got a new Samsung SSD 840 Pro drive. I plan to clone the drive using Acronis True Image. Question is after the cloning is done, will windows detect a change in the drive's hardware id and ask me to activate again or prompt me to buy a new license?
 
It will know the hard drive is different. But it's hard to say whether it would care; I would guess most likely not.
 
I did it, and there was no hiccup. Either drive boots, loads and runs without any activation problem. Maybe it is because the drives are swapped in a trayless EZ_Swap 4 rack? The rack stays the same. Somethings don't read through that little fence.

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One change that is Not Motherboard usually leaves the activation as is.

Use a Boot TI and image the whole Drive to an external Drive. Then Ghost the Image to the new SSD.

😎
 
JackMDS said:
One change that is Not Motherboard usually leaves the activation as is.

Use a Boot TI and image the whole Drive to an external Drive. Then Ghost the Image to the new SSD.

😎
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I am not sure if this is the case with MS activation 3.0 now. I know if you swap out the boot drive, Office 2013 will not run or reactivate without obtaining a new installation ID from MS.
 
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