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Solved! If MB fails

Shin Kairi

Shin Kairi

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will my OS C: drive still work perfectly on my next new MB same brand same model?

What if it's a different model?
 
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It'll work regardless of motherboard - you can even swap between Intel and AMD. You'll have to make sure It's set as boot drive in BIOS if you have more than 1 drive.
It'll work regardless of motherboard - you can even swap between Intel and AMD. You'll have to make sure It's set as boot drive in BIOS if you have more than 1 drive.
 
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dlerious said:
It'll work regardless of motherboard - you can even swap between Intel and AMD. You'll have to make sure It's set as boot drive in BIOS if you have more than 1 drive.
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Will there be some minor changes? Like, desktop items in some random order or something?
 
Which operating system/s are you using? If using windows, you may have to reactivate it.

As to minor changes, I have not experienced any when performing the swap.
 
DAPUNISHER said:
Which operating system/s are you using? If using windows, you may have to reactivate it.

As to minor changes, I have not experienced any when performing the swap.
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Not just reactivate it you'll likely be forced to buy a new key if its an OEM installed OS even if you are the OEM who built the PC and bought and installed a genuine copy of the Windows OS.

You may have to talk nicely to MS customer support to try to get them to reactivate it and as the MB is new and the system ID will now be different that is not a given.
 
Mantrid-Drone said:
Not just reactivate it you'll likely be forced to buy a new key if its an OEM installed OS even if you are the OEM who built the PC and bought and installed a genuine copy of the Windows OS.

You may have to talk nicely to MS customer support to try to get them to reactivate it and as the MB is new and the system ID will now be different that is not a given.
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I see. Thanks
 
Mantrid-Drone said:
Not just reactivate it you'll likely be forced to buy a new key if its an OEM installed OS even if you are the OEM who built the PC and bought and installed a genuine copy of the Windows OS.

You may have to talk nicely to MS customer support to try to get them to reactivate it and as the MB is new and the system ID will now be different that is not a given.
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That usually works. No big deal though, a legit 10 pro key is less than $12. Not like the old days where it could cost more than the board.
 
igor_kavinski said:
I think this one: https://www.vip-scdkey.com/software/p202105101337102054.html
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That's it, members price on 10pro right now is $10.02. I have bought around a dozen 10 pro keys the last 4-5yrs and all have worked. It only takes at most, a couple of minutes to get the activation key after using paypal. I don't trust many vendors with CC info.

Here is the Tom's article.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/get-windows-10-free-or-cheap,5717.html

One more thing. Type slmgr -dli in a command prompt to see if it is OEM or Retail after install. I have gotten both from them.
 
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I had no problems re-using my OEM Win10 key on a new pc build. However, I tied it to my MS Account, and when it came time to activate the new build, I just told it that I upgraded my machine and it re-activated fine.
 
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