Clean Install of 10 Pro from Converted ESD Loses Hardware Activation

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  1. pirithous

    pirithous MDL Member

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    #1 pirithous, May 29, 2016
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    pirithous MDL Member

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    I see. From what I have gathered, if you want genuine MS hardware activation, you cannot go from Windows 7 directly to Win 10 1511. You have to install 10240 first and then work from there. Unless there is some shortcut, which actually would be nice.
     
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    As far as I know, if on same computer, you had activation, (HWID), it should activate again when MS gets to it.:D

    Maybe someone else here knows another way:confused:
     
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    #6 glennsamuel32, Jun 1, 2016
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    I don't think that's correct about genuine activations...

    I just activated today from Win 7 Pro to the latest April 1511 build...
    And I used the loader ;)

    So why would genuine customers not have the same privilege ?
     
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    hack MDL Senior Member

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    To much confusion generated by the OP's question.

    "legitimately hardware activated from MS's KMS server"

    To answer the question it would need to a bit less confusing.

    Installer behaviour could indicate you have the wrong edition/language???
     
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