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Do I need to activate Win 10 Pro >again< on VM after re/clean install?
I installed Windows 7 Ultimate retail on a new VM. Activated it online then upgraded it to Windows 10. The upgrade was a huge pain (Windows Update problem, if you've been there, you know what I mean) so I really don't want to do that again...
After I upgraded successfully to Windows 10 (it upgraded as activated of course) I realised I am only using 64GB of my virtual hard drive and can't seem to "Extend" this partition to take up the full 128GB of host ssd I've allocated due to a 400MB "Recovery" partition in the middle.
Because of that, my immediate thought is to re-install Windows 10 Pro.
Now Windows 10, once activated, will remember the hardware of your machine so you can do a fresh installation and it will not ask you for the cd-key or ask you to re-activate. I know this. However this is a Virtual machine. Will it work the same? If I use the VM to download a Win 10 iso and do a fresh install (so I can install to the whole 128GB virtual harddisk) will it ask me to reactivate?
Thank you.
L