Fortunately, there are advanced backup and recovery systems out there that can help you prevent such situations from happening. There's nothing worse than losing all the data stored on the computer because of a hard disk failure or a serious system crash. I have not confirmed it that applies to the $39.99 Retail license that I recently bought from PC World though.Create partition and disk images for backup purposes and restore them whenever necessary, all thanks to this powerful open-source application. OEM versions, whether they came installed with a new PC or bought directly from Micro Center or Amazon or eBay vendors are stuck forever to one PC. A motherboard upgrade, even if you reuse storage, video, memory, and a case, is considered a new PC."Īn exception to the previous paragraph is that if you have purchased a Retail license instead of an OEM license, you can deactivate your license for the old machine and then activate it for a new machine.
" The one exception is a motherboard replacement, which will inevitably cause the Software Licensing Management utility to recognize the device as a new PC and require reactivation, typically over the phone. If that happens, a quick call to the activation line will resolve the issue, often without any human contact required, in minutes." " Microsoft doesn't provide details of how it calculates that hardware hash, but upgrades of system components such as a video card or a hard drive won't normally trigger a reactivation.
Here is a quote that gives the short version: Here is a link to the article:Īt the end of the article, they explain how Microsoft ties the license to the hardware. It shifted to an online database of licenses attached to specific machines. did an article in 2015 about Microsoft changing the way it controlled activation of Windows 10.
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