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Clone Win10 pro SSD Questions
Hello everyone! I'm new here and so far, have done five successful upgrades from Win7 Pro to Win10 Pro. All activated fine. These were fresh installs to new SSDs using the old Win7 Pro keys entered during installation or embedded bios .
My question is for two identical desktops. Both had valid Windows 7 Pro licenses.
The first one works fine, was activated using a cat5 connection. I cloned it and installed it in a second machine with a wireless connection.
I changed the second machine's name and user name and entered a new product key...or so I thought. It's been working great for almost a month. Several updates have been installed.
HOWEVER, ProduKey reveals that the product key I thought I successfully inserted didn't "take". The key from the first desktop is there, so I now both desktops have identical product keys.
So, can anyone give me some guidance on the best option to choose?
1) A fresh installation to another SSD, activate it, and take another 4 hours of time installing all my programs?
2) Same as # 1, but after activation is done, attempt to change the product key AGAIN in the cloned disk? My logic here is that once the second key is activated, it will remain valid in case I choose option #3.
3) Just attempt to change the product key in the clone again? (I'm afraid of doing so in case this would result in invalidating my second machine's key) What did I screw up the first time-maybe not using a utility to wipe out the SID?
I did search for answers but couldn't find anything specific for this scenario.
Thanks in advance, and sorry for the long post!!