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Local, offline backup and restore of Windows 10 activation token
My company provides two Windows PCs along with our industrial equipment, where the 2nd computer serves as an offline, unpowered backup. If the first PC fails, say the power supply goes out, we pull the removable drive, slide it into the backup, and power up.
The only hitch with this strategy was that Windows would detect the hardware change and ask for re-activation.
We solved this (under Windows 7) using the Advanced Tokens Manager app (Josh Cells):
Purchase 2 PCs, each with their own OEM Win7 Pro-64 license key.
Activate each online, backup the activation token with ATM.
When swapping a single drive from one PC to the next, use ATM to restore the activation for the correct PC upon first boot. Note that these are offline industrial systems, so online activation is not an option. Phoning in to Microsoft is not ideal either, and we would like to make this restore process as seamless and easy as possible.
Now we are moving from Win7 to Win10 and I would like to keep this procedure, but have found that ATM latest version is 3.5 for Win8 and no longer supported.
Can you suggest a replacement app to locally backup and restore a Win10 activation token, when a drive image is switched to different hardware? Or is there a better way to do what I want?
Thanks for the help!
Eric