[Solved] Preserving hardware-id without installing Windows 10?

The Hardware Hash is tied to the motherboard which has a unique mac address & uuid. You can replace hdd/ssd/video cards at will...

 

The HWID is consist of at least 10 divverent part's while MB is one, NIC an other, Graphic Card internal, Graphic Card external, etc., etc.! The complete HWID MS is using is about 50 characters/letter's! It's not an simple Hardware Hash!!

 

For me the way you have done is the best way to do it.

Maybe a bit long winded but not too bad.

 

The only way I know for to get an MS HWID is, to use the SLUI 4 command which will start a Phone Activation. You've to use and CMD as Administrator.

At one step, you'll get the HWID which you would need to submit to MS for activation procedure. It will work only for that specific Computer!

 

You could install win 10 anytime you like with a downloaded ISO

 

Everybody know's that!! Read the post's of the OP, he ask's how to get an HWID!! NOT how to install!!

 

No not everyone, many think's there is a 1 Year limmit.
I dont understand why he needs to get a HWID Before upgrade.

And no need to jump on people try to help

 

Sounds to me like the best and only way to do it.
Anyway, what's the rush, still got a year to make the decision !?

 

He wants to get his HWID registered on MS server with W10 but he doesn't want to use it yet. He still wants to stay on 7/8.1 for the moment. So he's looking for alternative ways to do so as Installing 7/8.1 on a new hdd, upgrading and swapping to the old drive again is a long process.

Anyway i think it's the safe way at the moment. alternatively, i used a system image of 8.1 for my other computer after I updated to W10 just to see if it was working and it did. Also after clean installing W10 on the same hardware, i made a system image of that too to speedup any eventual re-install

 

I really want to know if this is possible, but not for the reasons the OP has mentioned. For those who are responsible for upgrading hundreds of PCs, doing and upgrade via ISO and THEN a clean install is a pain in the butt. If anyone has worked out a way, I'm all ears.

PS: To the OP, yes upgrading on a separate disk works fine. I went from 7 to 10 on a laptop three weeks ago on a separate disk. Did a clean install of 10 on the original disk and it activated fine.

 

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For more than 150 PCs, I would certainly consider Software Assurance, and here the pain will certainly be much reduced.
Unless of course there are philosophical reasons to refuse to pay any undue penny to M$.

Also you are not forced to use an ISO: you can perform the upgrade from a network mount, it works OK; I guess that with 150 PC, you know how to perform unattended installations, and wake-on-LAN bunches of PCs at regular interval during nights. I doubt that doubling the network load will be the major problem, but even that one could be easily saved if you modify the first upgrade process to backup locally the install tree (\$Windows.~BT at then end of the first run of setup.exe; /noreboot comes very handy here.)
I believe such a scheme would be OK for a 50 PC deployment, perhaps even as low as 30.

 

Yeah, I know that VL is an option but it's not for my instance. The problem is that I do a lot of refurbishing and repairs - 50/50 business and personal PCs. Most businesses I work with only have 5-10 PCs tops. At the moment I have a system that works moderately OK (external USB 3.0 SSDs + Network shares) but I'm definitely on the hunt for something more efficient. I might do 10-20 a week, and it's pretty time consuming compared to 7/8.1 (although Windows 10 makes it easier in other aspects).

 

I suppose the only other alternative, the one the OP is really looking for, is to figure out which part of the upgrade process does the license check + hardware/installation hash upload to the Microsoft server. Haven't read anything about anyone getting into that though. Even if you could figure it out I have no clue how much of a chance you'd have to trigger it on demand.

 

Has anyone tried analysing exactly what happens during the upgrade process? It may be easier than we think. If I had the technical expertise with this form of analysis I would give it a go but unfortunately I do not.

 

Code:

\sources\gatherosstate.exe output_dir /f GenuineTicket.xml

 

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I don't know if it's the one sending the info, i just posted the parameter that the tool use to gather the info
most of info will be encoded in base64 format
you can open and check the generated file GenuineTicket.xml

 

Hi guys ,

can you tell me where is located this file ?

Media installation or ?

Thanks so much

BR
An1B,