Agreed. Bad idea to make your daily driver the same as your test bed.
I keep old Win 7 images for just this sort of worst case situation.
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Agreed. Bad idea to make your daily driver the same as your test bed.
I keep old Win 7 images for just this sort of worst case situation.
UPDATE: (As suggested earlier by NavyLCDR in post 46) I put an old (activated) image of 7 on a spare SSD and verified that it stayed activated through several reboots, and then did the 10 upgrade. ...
Good point.
Wow - I skimmed over it. That is a lot to soak up. I enabled the Hyper V, and I will need to reboot for that to work. I will tell you that I am starting to get a little burned out on the...
I am on 16188.1000. And mess is quite the understatement...
I was reading about how you have to be on the same version. So, the saga continues.
I started a post here:
Insider Activation...
I believe that is what the tech tried last night, but the repair option did not show, which created some confusion. So, fast-forward to today. I talked to a different tech, and after explaining...
Followed the instructions, generated the Ticket from the activated Win7 install, placed it to the proper folder in my borked Win10 install... and nothing. The file disappears from the folder after...
Indeed - I will have to give that a shot. But I did try the previous build (from a backup image) on a separate SSD, and that too lost activation. I was under the impression that once your system...
No - sorry, I didn't see your suggestions until after I called MS. Not sure that I still won't end up with a fresh install after tomorrow, and all the fun of tracking all my apps down, reinstalling,...
UPDATE: I called MS and they were very nice and we worked on it for a couple of hours. They agreed that something got corrupted (the double listing of my system in my MS account seemed odd to them...
Tried the rename thing - no luck. Put the image of (10.0.15063.0) on another drive and it showed activated for about 10 seconds (it only said 'activated' but nothing about a link to my MS account). ...
Some more info - there is a Status link for the (10.0.15063.0) :
CHD-RVE-PC
All Series
Status
Device info & support
This is all on the same machine. No dual booting or anything like that. I don't remember the exact date, but sometime earlier this year I switched from the slow ring to the fast ring and I would get...
The trouble shooter tells me that it can't activate on this device and to go to the store. That is about all I get out of it...
And I do appreciate all of your help (everyone on this thread!).
I will try the rename here in a bit. As for your other instructions, I know what you want me to do, but I am a little unclear as to how to achieve it. Not sure what you mean by "to the desktop of...
Wow - it says "We can't activate Windows on this device as the previous version of Windows was not activated prior to upgrading to Windows 10. Go to the Store (blah blah blah)."
Of course, this is...
Pardon my ignorance - is this the key: VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T
This is what I see on my MS account...
DevicesOverviewManage device limits
Devices you have signed into with a Microsoft account
...
Restarted the service - and ran slmgr /ato. Same error box as earlier.
I suppose if MS isn't screaming at me for activation, then maybe I should just let it go. I do have an image from a couple...
Right - same with me. I have managed to fix these types of things over the years too. When they come up again, I wish I would have documented what I did.
And I tried the command and I get the...
This is what was returned:
Activating Windows(R), Professional edition
(4de7cb65-cdf1-4de9-8ae8-e3cce27b9f2c)...
Error:0x803F7001 On a computer running Microsoft Windoes non-core edition,
run...
Windows Diagnostic Information
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Tool Version: 10.0.16188.1000
Licensing Status: In Notification
Licensing Status Reason: 0xC004F034
Local Genuine State:
Local...
It just seems odd that I have seen "Windows is activated with a digital license liked to your Microsoft account" since last year when I linked to my MS account. And I am not getting any prompts...
They don't really address the activation relative to the Insider builds.
I have noticed on the last two or three builds that my Activation stopped. Next to Activation is says "Unable to reach Windows activation servers. I used to see the "Windows is activated with a...