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[SOLVED] Windows 10 Activation - Win10 Pro with Win8 embedded key?
Hi all - quick question.
I was asked by a family friend to move all his info over to a new laptop....his other one got dropped and it runs, but the entire screen assembly is SCREWED.
His laptop currently has Win10 Pro (upgraded from Win7 Pro) installed and activated on it. He is a retired teacher and it was his old laptop from the school board that was gifted to him when he retired. That means it has a lot of software he still uses installed that he has no way to get back now that he is retired as it was installed by the school board before he left.
So he wouldn't lose any of that software, I wanted to just clone his Win10 install over from his old laptop to the new one as I've done that before on other machines and all was well and Windows 10 activated successfully - this new Acer he will be using has had Win10 installed and activated on it before this.
My question is this - his new Acer laptop has a Win8 sticker on it, so I know Win10 will activate off that....but I'd assume that the Win8 sticker on his new Acer would be Win8 Home. If the clone from his old machine is Win10 Pro (which it is), will the embedded key still activate the cloned copy of Win10?
Thanks in advance! :)
Last edited by Darkstrike; 15 Jan 2022 at 21:02.