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I recently upgraded my desktop which was running Windows 10 Pro.
I transferred to boot drive from my old desktop so as to avoid having to reinstalled the multitude of applications.
I get the following message when trying to reactivate:
"Windows reported that the hardware of your device has changed. Error code: 0xC004F211"
Is there a solution? Can I purchase a Windows 11 Pro licence key and use that?
thanks in anticipation
Should add, I will be moving to Win 11 Pro... just not immediately - hence my wanting to use a Win 11 Pro licence key.
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Hello,
Did you run the activation troubleshooter, there may be an option to report changed hardware.
If not you may need to place a phone call explaining you changed hardware.
You can run SLUI 4 to bring up the phone activation dialog.
Darrell
Thank You,
That resolved the issue.