On 21/12/2018 14.01, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 11:58 AM Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> 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?
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?
That's what an expert said on the W10 newsgroup. I have seen several other posts from him and he seems reliable. However, I have not tried it. Before reading that advice, this summer I migrated disks on a Windows laptop (Lenovo). I simply "dd'ed" the original rotating rust disk to an SSD of double size, told gparted to "expand" the partition table (it offered to do so automatically), and installed Linux on that empty space. At some point in the procedure I booted Windows and it did not complain at all. Maybe it did a silent checkdisk, it called Mama, I don't know. :-) Ah, Windows doesn't say now that there are empty space and offer to format the Linux partitions ;-) The idea of "dd" is that it copies the disk identifier, which is one of the items that Windows used to say that it was the same machine. fdisk (advanced menu) can edit that field. Ah, and being GPT partitions we no longer have to play tricks with the limit of 4 partitions being already used. Things improve :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)