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    Can't activate Windows after replacing a hard drive and re-installing - Never hear back...


    I've reinstalled Windows 11 on my PC after replacing a failed HDD and now I can't activate Windows. I skipped adding a product key during installation as instructed on the MS website due to having a digital licence and once I was able to boot into Windows it wouldn't let me activate it. I clicked the "Recently changed hardware" button and went through that and selected my PC. I was then greeted with a message saying I couldn't activate Windows because the digital licence had already been used to activate Windows... Well yes, of course it's already been used to activate Windows because it was w

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