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How do I change Signature on Win10 System Drive (and still boot)
I use slide in hard drive bays with SSDS for my system disks. I usually have a couple of different versions of installs on different SSDS and I swap them in and out like a floppy drive. I also always do my install on one computer and clone it out to several other computers. I was reading another post where several people were saying that it would not work and would be illigal even if it did. Having done this probably 100 times in the past with Win7 and several times with Win10 I can assure you it works. With Win7 you give it a legal Key in control panel and all is good. With Win10 if the recipient computer has already had Win10 it will have it's electronic entitlement registered with MS and you don't have to do anything except wait for it to install drivers. These are all completely different machines with different processors. (In another post somebody claimed that it would only work if the 2 computers had the same processor) I also like to change the drive signiture on each so I can use one SSD to back up the other. (I use Acronis and it works 100% of the time) With Win7 after you change the Sig you have to boot with install disk and use disk repair; it will patch the OS to accept the new sig and it will reboot perfectly. I have not figured out how to do this with Win10; no problem cloning and deploying to other computors, but once I change the sig it's toast, disk repair on instalation disk will not save it. Does anyone know how to change signiture on Win10 system disk and still have it work?