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OEM HP box that came with Win10 Home - showing not activated

VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

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I recently purchased the Wal-Mart special HP gaming PC for $499.

When I finally got it open, I unplugged the factory HDD, and plugged in a 240GB TLC SSD that I had around. It had come out of another PC, that had Windows 10 on it, and I think was activated (on the other hardware).

Now, if I had freshly-formatted that SSD, and re-installed, I think, it should have picked up the activation key from the BIOS.

But since I've moved this previously-activated SSD over, it failed activation, of course, and won't let me activate.

Can I enter the generic product key for Win10 home, and have it re-activate via BIOS, or do I need to do a fresh install, or is this machine screwed, with MS's server's recording the "unactivated" status for this hardware-hash?

Or should I disconnect the SSD, reconnect the HDD, boot it, make sure it's activated, and THEN plug in the SSD and re-format and re-install, hoping that it picks up the prior activation status from MS's servers?

I didn't think that it would this big a PITA to get this thing activated.
 
I would start my installing the original hdd and see if Windows activates fine. My guess is that it will. Once you have confirmed that then you are correct your next best course of action will be to install a fresh copy of Windows on the ssd and see if it activates.
 
I have many times a situation that after upgrading SSD it might take a Day or two to Activate.

Sometimes ir states that the computer is Not connected to the Internet while any Browser can connect. Other times it states that I do have a Valid license stored on the Activation service and tells me to Re-Install. I leave it alone and next day it comes with Windows Activated.

My guess is that Millions computers checking Activation and the constant Updates the system is already overburdened. As usual MS would Not admit to such a situation until it Fixed, or get totally Broken. :fearscream:

P.S. Make sure that at such times no other 3rd party Firewall/Anti Virus is running, only Windows native Firewall and Defender.


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