fwiw: I don't think that is significant. I keep a virtualbox snapshot of a freshly installed Win7 Pro just for playing with. I got that "HrOnline: N/A" in mgadiag both before and after online validation at the MS site using Internet Explorer. The Win7 guest OS was activated by the loader, and interestingly, it took me two tries to pass as genuine. First try said something like it could not determine if I was genuine, maybe try again later ...
Yes, but Loader has to be installed in SAFE mode (forgot about the 'type 4 memory thing'). The 'restart message' says you have to manually install serial and certificate because it is in safe mode, but in fact the certificate is done, only serial not installed (which is good). Unfortunately, same old error (key has been blocked) after connecting to internet. Will give it another go as per your suggestion, new loader serial and disable type 4 memory.
yes, maybe try a different slic/cert/serial combination next time you install loader. That might change your hardware hash enough to make the activation server think that you are somebody new, rather than somebody it has already blocked.
What are you installing W7 from? Is it a clean, untouched ISO? Don't use that pre-activated cr@p. Decide which SLIC you are going to use - Asus, Hp, etc. Now find the key for that and use that while installing W7. You'll still need DAZ loader but at least you won't have a bad key floating around in your system. Don't mix up versions. W7 pro upgraded to W10 pro worked for me. W10 creates additional partitions on the HDD. Might be a good idea to delete all partitions and start fresh just in case it is storing some activation related stuff there.
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The issue there is that you went from 8.1 to 10 and you activated it against the VL channel, which isn't officially supported for the free upgrade. It probably recorded your old Vista SLIC too. If you had of installed the loader on Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate and then upgraded to Windows 10 Pro then the SLIC would be recorded as v2.1. Once your copy of Windows 10 is activated then you can format, reinstall Windows 10 Pro and gain activation again. There are no activation bugs. There's just people trying to skip between licencing channels and Microsoft's activation servers are still not working perfectly.
Daz, as a personal clear up for me, are you saying Microsoft is recording our SLIC and tying it to us? I just want to know to make sure when I talk to this to other people I know what I am talking about
When you perform the upgrade then there's a version check, but I've not seen that done at any other stage. I'll double check over everything when I've got a little more time though. Obviously if you're skipping between VL and OEM via SLIC or an MSDM then that's going to look mighty suspicious though.
Is the DAZ loader overwritten after upgrading to Windows 10 ? The loader says unsupported software so i can't uninstall, and I would rather not do a fresh windows 10 install. Thanks.
If you update Windows 10 to fix some bugs and then run a full disk cleanup then yes, the loaders removed.
Hi, I have a question. Can I upgrade my laptop with Win 10 Home (already activated) to Pro through reinstalling Win 7 SP1 Ult and upgrade Win 10 Pro? Thanks.
That seems unlikely. Some years ago, I flashed a bios modified to include a slic 2.1 table to activate Win7. Now, after upgrading from Win7 to Win10, I flashed the original bios that does not have the slic table. Win10 remains activated, no problems.
I can now confirm that there's no further SLIC checks. There's just hardware checks to make sure that most of the systems hardware remains the same.
Or could it be that a SLIC check is still performed, but failing the SLIC check is not a major hardware change to invalidate the activation?
That situation can change at any time. That is the whole point of automatic and unstoppable Windows Updates. Anything they want to do can be delivered in the next round of updates.
It is more likely that they only test for valid activation once before starting the upgrade, and other than that don't give two hoots regarding slic tables.