Windows 11 reactivating windows key after hardware change

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Michael Ilewicz

Hi,my motherboard recently needed replacement, and when it did, I had driver issues with my graphics card and I just couldn't operate the machine. So I decided to pull the most important information from my SSD, extract the Windows key (Windows 10) and do a clean reinstall. However, now Windows 11 claims that it can't activate windows because the key is not valid... I don't think I had connected my personal account to windows, but I checked all accounts I could think of and none of them was connected to the old PC ID. Of course microsoft has the most frustrating support possible, and is just l

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