WIN 10 Ent not activating after cloning
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Used Clonezilla for about 5 years and no problems, problems starting end of Aug. Are a company with many exactly same HP Probook 450 G3 with SSD. Have Volumelicense and SPLA and use our companys MAK key. A laptop is clean installed and MAK key is activated. Make an Image of it, and install that on another, same laptop, and that is not electronic activated? When then try to put in same MAK key as on Image master, it fail??? This has been before August on other laptops and Win 7 and Win 10, but not now. What happend? Could it be an Win 10 update such as KB4040725? Anyone have had this problem?
According to the following page a MAK has a predetermined number of allowed activations. Any change you hit that limit?
https://technet.microsoft.com/nl-nl/library/ff793435.aspx
No we have up to 2500 and have about 230 activated. I have thought about this to, if something wrong at the MS activating servers. And MS says no, I called them. But older laptops, we have. Have not this aktivating problems, using the same Win 10 Ent key and newly updated? Just this "new" HP 450 G3 with SSD?
We have several HP Zbook models which have the Windows Key stored in BIOS. I imagine a ProBook has the same. Have you tried to find and use that key? There are several tools which you can use to retrieve the Windows Key from BIOS, as explained on the following page: https://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-retrieve-windows-8-oem-product-key-from-bios
Personally I always use ProduKey: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html
We sometimes have issues activating Windows after restoring an image, but we use a lot of systems of which the hardware changes all the time (different diskdrives, video adapters, CPU's, etc.). But since you are using ProBooks, that won't be an issue I imagine. Older HP systems we have were originally delivered with a Windows 7 key, which causes activation issues when restoring a Windows 10 image on them. But I imagine a G3 ProBook is factory delivered with Windows 10. Conclusion: I'm as puzzled as you are.