Windows 10 Insider Question

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Ryan7968

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Around May/June I started using the Windows 10 Insider build on a secondary PC. After July 29th when Windows 10 was officially released, the PC running the Insider preview downloaded an update and seemed to become a regular Windows 10 Pro copy.

Long story short, I swapped disk drives and had to reinstall Windows 10. Now this will not activate. Is this to be expected because it all started as an Insider preview?
 
Ryan7968 said:
Around May/June I started using the Windows 10 Insider build on a secondary PC. After July 29th when Windows 10 was officially released, the PC running the Insider preview downloaded an update and seemed to become a regular Windows 10 Pro copy.

Long story short, I swapped disk drives and had to reinstall Windows 10. Now this will not activate. Is this to be expected because it all started as an Insider preview?
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Likely it's probably because your PC isn't matching the original hardware signature that the prior install was activated against.

That said, you could probably re-install the preview build and let it re-upgrade to PRO and go from there.
 
The hardware signature seems mysterious to me. In my main PC I have changed CPU's, swapped out 4 disks, added a second GFX card, and reinstalled clean Windows 10 (straight Windows 10 ISO, no need to install Win7 then upgrade) at least 3 times without any issues on the activation.

I'll definitely give what you suggest a try and hope that it works.
 
Ryan7968 said:
The hardware signature seems mysterious to me. In my main PC I have changed CPU's, swapped out 4 disks, added a second GFX card, and reinstalled clean Windows 10 (straight Windows 10 ISO, no need to install Win7 then upgrade) at least 3 times without any issues on the activation.

I'll definitely give what you suggest a try and hope that it works.
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How did you get on with this? I was in the same situation of being in the Insider Program, and getting a full Pro version. However, after the latest TH2 update, instead of just Win 10 Pro, it now says Insider Preview version again (10565). I want to upgrade my OS drive from an HDD to an SSD, but I'm not sure if I will be able to activate it again...
 
Camberwell said:
How did you get on with this? I was in the same situation of being in the Insider Program, and getting a full Pro version. However, after the latest TH2 update, instead of just Win 10 Pro, it now says Insider Preview version again (10565). I want to upgrade my OS drive from an HDD to an SSD, but I'm not sure if I will be able to activate it again...
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I need to work on it still, been too busy. I'll be sure to update the thread when I know more. It's just my HTPC with the problem, and when I'm watching videos the "activate windows" message does not distract me much.
 
I would guess it's not matching the hardware signature but I could be wrong.
 
Oddly enough, I have swapped CPUs and Motherboards and not had this problem activating on one pc. However on another I changed out the HDD (did a clone) and the CPU/Mobo (went from intel to amd) and it failed activation everytime. Who knows how this works at this point...
 
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