Activate Windows After HW Changes

[HaGGard269]

Hello,

I recently upgraded my CPU, Motherboard, Ram, and HDD to SSD. I upgraded my genuine copy of windows 8.1 to windows 10 about 3 weeks prior. I didn't want to install windows 8 all over again only to then have to update to windows 10 right after. So I just cloned my HDD onto my SSD. It worked fine for a day, but now its telling me I need to activate windows.

What do I do, is there any way to activate without having to reinstall windows 8 then upgrade to windows 10? I know my windows 8 product key will not work. This is such a pain in the butt this whole free update thing... I want a disk with a cd key printed on it just like the old days...

Anyhow, anyone have any ideas?

 

[BigFeet]

You probably have to contact microsoft. Scroll down to Windows 10.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/950929