I had installed windows 10 vm during the free upgrade using windows 7 key, but had to delete my VM and reinstall windows. Now that I have a new VM, the same key no longer works to activate. Anyone know how I could make this work? My original thought was that since the key is attached to my actual HD, it should be fine to delete and re-create my VM...
Have you tried to install without a key and then activate? the hwid created during your previous upgrade is bound by the hardware, not any key.
Does that mean that if he opened The VM with old Win 10 and made it boot to Windows 10 ISO and do a clean install it would work. I have been running VMware for over 10 years and never tried to do what I mentioned above but I think it should work. Ohh and to the OP just reinstall Windows 7 and upgrade the VM to Windows 10. You can still upgrade for free I have read many posts on other forums that Microsoft is still letting you do it.