Cloning Win 10 PC's Question

Discussion in 'Windows 10' started by harrismail, Oct 26, 2015.

  1. harrismail

    harrismail MDL Member

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    A colleague is ordering 6 Windows 10 Home laptops and I just wondered if it would be possible to set up one exactly how we want with all updates, programs etc and then clone it to the other 5?

    I thought maybe all I needed to do was extract the key from the BIOS on the other 5 laptops and (like with Windows 8.1) enter it into the SLUI dialog and successfully activate Windows 10 on the other 5 laptops.

    Will this plan work??
     
  2. dhjohns

    dhjohns MDL Guru

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    I don't believe that is possible since activation is tied to hardware.
     
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  3. Enthousiast

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  4. harrismail

    harrismail MDL Member

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    Hmmm I'm confused as I did this procedure previously with 6 Windows 8.1 laptops and the process worked fine... all I did was extract the BIOS key from each laptop and it activated fine with the same True Image backup from the first laptop .... Oh well.. I'll try it when we get them..
     
  5. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    I think dhjohns forgot you have genuine pre installed windows 10, then it's the same as with 8.1 i guess.