Windows 10: Changed MB, 10565 no more actvated.

You could try to obtain a genuineticket.xml on the build 10240 installation and use it to activate the 10565, as in
Clean Install Windows 10 Directly without having to Upgrade First - Windows 10 Forums

Then you may need to do a registry edit to renew your insider status - it should look like this, but your FlightingOwnerGUID may be different:


Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost\Applicability] "Ring"="WIF" "ThresholdRiskLevel"="low" "EnablePreviewBuilds"=dword:00000002 "RingBackup"="WIS" "AdminFlowsValidateFlightSettingsHr"=dword:00000000 "FlightingOwnerGUID"="9185273e-b273-4b26-916c-56ae88ed64de" "BranchName"="th2_release" "UserPreferredBranchName"="th2_release" "ThresholdOptedin"=dword:00000001[/quote] And make sure that there are no other registry subkeys in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost]

 

I've been your whole route, Mike. I lost activation just after RTM upgrade when they turned ISO downloads off. 10RTM wouldn't boot for me. Borrowed someone else's ESD to ISO with no go. I didn't get any help as an Insider from "NW Asia" phone or emails. Kept referring me to the next guy/gal.

I dual boot 8.1 with 10. What I eventually did was formatted the 10 partition from within 8.1 then take my 8.1 to upgrade to 10RTM, which activated. All is ok as long as you're a registered Insider. Then I reloaded my 8.1 on the old 10 partition. All is fine.

What you need to do is take a qualified OS, upgrade to 10RTM which will activate, and turn it on to accept Previews. It should upgrade to 10565 still activated. Fresh install after that if need be. At worst if need be is the cost of a license is your only alternative.

Hope that helps.

 

That might work too. *Wink

Where were they a few months ago?!! *sarc

 

If your Windows 10 on the second SSD stayed activated after the MB switch (which it should not have), then why not clone that to your first SSD and use that to "upgrade" to build 10565?

 

Well, that genuine ticket didn't work and entering old 8.1 key neither. I guess they don't let same key to be used twice. I have only one key for 8.1 and W7 key I spent on upgrade to W8 while it was very cheap. I'm not about to buy new windows just for privilege to test it for them (MS).
For me, last few upgrades/updates were very stable so I can use them for main system. That's why I activated insider status on my 8.1 to 10 conversion on other disk and will keep testing on it. Full Macrium Reflect backup of 10240 ensures that I can go back any time if something goes wrong. I'll keep this one for a while and if it doesn't get activated (I asked MS about it), I'll use that smaller SSD for something else like a pair of Linux installations I keep on a HDD.
It's kinda stupid from MS to continue insider program but not to allow it to be tested on as many platforms as possible. There are other ways to regulate Insider versions than to go by MB/BIOS alone. The could go by MS account for instance or even make an "exclusive" club for beta testers, anything if they are serious about insider testing. Can't imagine to many people buying windows just for testing them for MS. I'm using same MS account since probably W95 or 98 and they know quite well about any Windows I used and betas I tested.
Not that it might matter for them but from now on I'll be staying as an insider only to satisfy my own curiosity and no more back feeds.

 

Have you thought about doing on the PC like I do in VMs? I just don't activate, and the only thing I can't do is manually customize, and that's taken care of as soon a it sync's with my MS account. The builds are not around long enough usually so there's no black outs or nagging.

The only thing is, you'll need to get ahold of an .iso or .esd and create one....

 

Here is what winver gives me for an unactivated copy

 

Did it in VM within W8.1 with first few builds but find it too restrictive. As you mentioned syncing, visually speaking and some settings are from one of my before 10240 builds. I don't remember exactly when but I stopped syncing before that.
I don't get that MS policy of restricting only interface changes in non-activated insider builds. If that's so people wouldn't use insider versions as a free windows, that will not stop most of them because they wouldn't care what it looks like as long as it's free.

 

Same here.

 

I suppose after a while it starts freezing or shutting down, but I never had a build that got that far. It could be(this is only a hypothesis) as long as they can collect data and you don't change any insider settings(plus my account is an insider account, maybe that helps?) Microsoft lets me get away with it.....

 

Gonna have to check on it but I don't think they are accepting any more insiders without using W7/8.1 as a base. Otherwise I could make another account just for that. Or what a heck, it might be just too much trouble.

 

Did you get the Windows 8 MCE free upgrade key? I used that once for a clean installation of 10565 Professional - entered in the first time a product key was asked for in setup, it was accepted, and then if asked for a product key again, clicked the "do this later" link, and the end result was activated.

The MCE key had been used in 2012 for Windows 8, but I never reused the MCE for the Windows 8.1 upgrade that followed.

Have you checked that the Key in your 10565 is the proper generic Windows 10 key ending with -3V66T with showkey?

 

Didn't you sign up for the insider program at the beginning?

Try signing in here: Home page - Windows Insider Program

 

There is also this:

 

It worked once and it's still OK on one installation but not on second one.