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Warning: iMac BOOTCAMP - Clean Install - BSOD Inaccessible Boot device
My Son has an iMac on which he was running Windows 7 Pro via bootcamp.
He wanted a clean install of Windows 10 Pro ...
Installed the upgrade all went well.
Made sure Windows was activated.
Grabbed keys using Magic Jelly (now know this was flawed ) just in case.
Started the revert process saying no to retain settings and format partition.
On Start up got BSOD with message Inaccessible Boot device ...
Obviously the boot sector on the windows partition got screwed up ...
Booted back to OSX, used bootcamp assistant to wipe the old partition, then create a new one and re-install from official iso (downloaded using my MSDN subscription).
Installed fine but would not active, message said key ending "3V66T" had been blacklisted grrrr, so much for auto re-activation. Maybe the "new" bootcamp had a different signature???
So had to use up one of my MSDN keys for him, no big deal for me, but a right pain in the ... for anyone without an MSDN subscription.
I have done a search for the key and I can confirm that the key ending "3V66T" seems to a generic key baked into the iso.