22.12.2018 7:07, Basil Chupin пишет:
On 22/12/18 12:01 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 11:58 AM Carlos E. R.
wrote: I read that with Windows 10 the license is tied to the machine and that you can replace the hard disk with no issues, automatically (and that disk would not work on a different machine). However, I do not know how they identify the machine. That's for the Dell? All PCs?
So one could install a hard disk, download and install Windows. And it figures out the machine info to get a valid license? Automatically?
No, you need the licence number for the copy of Windows when you are installing it.
Wrong in general unless you talk about something like Windows NT or earlier. And it is not called "license number" to start with, it is called "product key".
But you wrote in an earlier post is that you have Windows already installed on some machine but you may want to replace the HDD on which Windows is installed with a SSD. If so then what you can do is to use Clonezilla and CLONE the HDD with Windows onto a SSD and Windows will quite happily boot and run from the SSD.
I mention this because if the machine you have came with Windows already installed then you wouldn't have the required licence details ('cause the lmachinne supplier installed Windows and therefore kept the installation disc which has the licence number printed on it).
Welcome to the present, Mr. Rip van Winkle. Read about SLP or "Windows 10 digital license".
While I don't have a SSD, nor really know anything about them, yesterday I did clone Windows on my desktop from one HDD to another, larger, HDD and Window booted without any hassles from the new HDD (clone).
Re how Windows "... figures out the machine info to get a valid license ..." I don't the answer but it probably uses the info you would get when you run the Linux command 'hwinfo --short' or some such.
BC
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