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Windows not activated after SSD upgrade

pissed · 2016-03-24 13:59:53

I have Windows 8.1 installed on a 500GB sata drive in my laptop. It is activated on this drive. I cloned this drive using Acronis and EaseUS Todo Backup and both fail to copy the activation over. When I click on activate it says Windows cant activate try again later. I also extracted the Windows key and input it again.…

24-03-2016 02:59PM

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I have Windows 8.1 installed on a 500GB sata drive in my laptop. It is activated on this drive. I cloned this drive using Acronis and EaseUS Todo Backup and both fail to copy the activation over. When I click on activate it says Windows cant activate try again later. I also extracted the Windows key and input it again. Same result.

Any suggestions?

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#2 26-03-2016 01:33AM

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pissed wrote: »

I have Windows 8.1 installed on a 500GB sata drive in my laptop. It is activated on this drive. I cloned this drive using Acronis and EaseUS Todo Backup and both fail to copy the activation over. When I click on activate it says Windows cant activate try again later. I also extracted the Windows key and input it again. Same result.

Any suggestions?

Personally I'd go with a clean install.

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