Windows 10: Can't activate my license after switching external hard drive to internal SATA

Hi. I recently switched the hard drive containing my Windows OS Windows 10 Home from an external setup connected via USB to an internal setup with the drive connected via SATA cables.I got the machine to boot up like normal, but now Windows is telling me that I can't activate my license, which was working fine when I was using the drive externally. I have a feeling that this constitutes the kind of "hardware change" that I've seen lots of different help pages about. No matter what I try, though, I can't get it to work; I keep getting error 0x800705b4. Apparently, the product key that I was

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SATA internal HDD and external SATA HDD

using a USB makes it a external drive to the system. suggest that you do some research on USB vs SATA.

 

External Hard Drive

Hi John,

We suggest that you try the troubleshooting steps below:

• Open your External Hard Drive file in File Explorer.
• Type the name of the file you want to search on the search box and click Enter.

The file will show up in Search Results and you will be able to move it to the correct folder.

Let us know if you need further help.

 

external hard drive

Hi Chrpee,

If you can't find external hard drive on Disk management than the next step is using the diskpart via command line, please follow the steps below:-

On the keyboard hit ((Windows logo key + R key)) than type ((CMD))

Now the windows command line will appear, the next steps is to type ((diskpart))

After that type ((list disk)) to show you the list of hard disks with partitions

If you found your external hard drive one of the list than you need to type ((select disk number)), note: the number is a disk number

Once you selected the hard disk or partitions than type ((clean))

than type ((create partition primary))

than type ((select partition 1))

than type ((active))

than type ((format fs=ntfs quick))

than type ((assign))

last type ((exit))

Check if the external hard drive appeared, if not please see the link below for more info and let me know if you need any assist

https://uk.pcmag.com/dvd-burners/120624/what-to...