Is it going to work if the license of a VHD Windows 8 Pro is restored to a physical drive on the same laptop?
I have now worked on this guide for a couple days now with various improvements, I think that everything that needed to be said is present. It feels complete and hopefully people will read the whole thing and not just skim through it. Again thank you for reading and furthermore understanding!
Depends what software you used to run it. If used vbox it will not work I think. If VMware I don't know, try it.
You're talking about Hyper-V right? I'm not sure how that works, but I'm pretty certain it doesn't work but I would be positively surprised if it did. Just try it out and see what happens.
I have the same question.Could someone give it a try and post the result here?I haven't activated Win8 yet.Thanks
FYI, you can sign-up for the True Image 2013 Beta program for free. Plus they give you a full license and serials for all their other products to try out.
I read the info all the way... I agree with you many either do not read or do not know how to read properly. Great Info ad very well written... Mega Thanks..
I have tried this. But it doesnt work. My VHD is activated but when I restored it to a partition, windows 8 deactivated. Even restoring the token folder doesnt seem to activate the windows on the partiton
If I have backed up my activation and then changed a piece of hardware; ie: the cpu and then restored my activation, will windows 8 (enterprise) still be activated?
Yes, a CPU change alone is not enough to make the hardware fall out of tolerance and invalidate the activation, so the system should remain activated.
For win7 and before, this is true, but I wouldn't say it with such confidence for win8, especially a KMS activation........same old thing: there is only one way to find it out. btw, I feel sorry for those unlucky guys who didn't make the KMS activation(except, of course, if he is going to get MSDN/technet key next week.).
XP had much stricter Hardware compliance rules for activation, MS actually loosened it up for Vista and 7 as a result of the complaints and the myriad of support calls from people trying to re-activate. 8 will more than likely have the same hardware compliance rules as 7. There's no reason to change them as they worked.