#35: Author: Sin,
You have posted in this forum: Tue Mar 28, 2017 12:46 am
Those freeby keys from old Win 7/8 licenses don't carry over if you get a brand new PC, they're meant to get people's current machines up and running with the newest OS. Those keys are tied to motherboard, hard drive and basically everything. You can transfer the license if you change a part here or there, but if you get a completely brand new everything, there is no piece of the "old" PC that the license was tied to and your freeby license is essentially burned up at that point. If you had a win 10 retail license, then yes, you can keep activating that on new setups. But as far as I'm aware, those licenses they give out from free upgrades are not transferable to brand new builds with new everything. Unless Jayd knows a trick my only other suggestion is to call Microsoft and ask them to activate the key for you.
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