On 30/12/2020 18:18, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
After serious thinking John Rumm wrote :
For future reference. if you have you PC logged in with an online
account (MS, outlook, live etc), then it can link the windows
activation to the account. Hence you can change a mobo, and when you
login again it will recover the activation state.

(which sounds like what happened here - even if not on the first
attempt!)

I just didn't manage to log in at all, until it actually got as far as
being fully booted up into Windows. It seemed to take pity on my
predicament :-)

Generally if you had it linked to an account before the upgrade you
should be ok. (the activation status will report something like
"activated with a digital licenses associated with account bla bla" or
similar. You just get the "activated with a digital license bit" if it s
not linked to an account.

I have been caught out like that on machines that only had a local
account, and that had a complete motherboard failure. Hence all the
advice to protect the activation state by linking to an account is a bit
moot since you can't boot it to link it - catch 22.



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Cheers,

John.

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