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VM's. Moving to different HDD's and Digital Licences
Hi there
Just a note to people who perhaps have upgraded to W10 from say W7 and then move to a different HDD when they upgraded from W7 to a W10 VM.
KEEP the original W7 image . You can always create a new licensed W10 system from that if everything goes pear shaped.
The first VM will be fine -- you'll get a digital licence.
Now if you try and move the VM to say an internal SSD from a networked HDD by just copying / cloning the VM either by Clone from vmware or copy the folder with File explorer the digital licence will FAIL.
What you have to do in this case is use something like MACRIUM to backup the VM as per a REAL machine. Then create a NEW VM on the SSD, and then boot from an ISO (the bootable recovery medium from MACRIUM) to restore the image.
Then it's all fine.
(This is for VM's ceated with VMWARE workstation / player).
Cheers
jimbo