Man there is nothing to say about that, but Holy Sxxx. Everyone must have phone now, spend all day talking, or pleading/begging MS to activate them again Also read somewhere today they have changed the name Digital Entitlement to Digital License.
Things have sure changed if that is true, last time I called in for MS OS activation (legal key) I got a robot that led me through the easy steps. Edit: Oh sorry, it was a HDD. Other times I just used WHS2011 to install a backup (Different HDD, same PC) I the OS & Office were auto activated, that's what I prefer now days, even works for backed-up clean installed after update from W7 > W10 on a new HDD.
Hard Drive or SSD, I hope that is some kind of error, or MS thinks, probably rightly, from people who don't know, some people will buy OS, Lord help us.
I've installed a new drive on one of my PC's and that remained activated after a fresh install. I did keep the original HDD connected though as I use it for extra storage.
If I remove the storage drive I remain activated, so I don't know if switching drive types would cause an issue for everyone.
I just meant at first moving HD/SD to storage, after reboot MS see's it, thinks no change, activates you, then you remove the one you moved to storage, it remains activated as MS saw it on first reboot Guess we'll know soon enough, when people start changing HD/SSD's and do not move to storage, if they get MrX's msg, then it might be meant to confuse some people into buying OS.
I have moved many installations from HDD to SSD and windows 10 has always retained its activation (which is a different behavior from W7-8.1 &C that are way less forgiving on that)
Thats weird MrX got that msg, I know one time I lost activation for just adding RAM, but received no msg like MrX
I think that the rules aren't sculpted in the stones on the server side. I believe it's a moving target. It's easy to guess that they relax or restrict the rules depending on the feedback, and other parameters