Windows 10: Hardware Change and Missing Digital License

Hi there

I purchased Windows 8 Pro in 2015 and used this to get the free Windows 10 upgrade. For the last five years Windows would always tell me that I had a digital license if I went into activation options under the settings panel. On my Microsoft account my PC would show up with the model number of my computer's motherboard a Gigabyte B85M-HD3-A for the now old Haswell socket CPUs.


Yesterday I got a new PC with a Coffeelake socket CPU. I installed Windows off a Windows 10 retail flash that I had lying around and just skipped the product key phase of installation because I assumed the digital license would re-activate once I signed into my Microsoft account. This did not happen. So I went into my account where the B85M-HD3-A was showing as one of my devices with a valid Windows 10 license, and 'removed PC' I figured I could not reactivate Windows if another PC was still registered to use the copy in question.


That was the last I saw of that license. I cannot activate Windows 10 on my new PC. I did a manual update because Windows kept returning errors if I tried the normal Windows Update facility and got the options to re-activate because of 'hardware change'. But all Windows tells me is that it cannot find a license linked to my account. This is COMPLETELY opposite to how I've been living for the past few years with Windows always telling me that I do in facthave a digital license.


Help help help.

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I recently was able to reactivate my Windows 10 digital license on new (only on similar, same type laptop to laptop) hardware, by linking my Microsoft account. I followed the steps mentoned in

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Please advice me, as I would like to transfer my digital license to my new hardware, completely, and permanently. I require my old hardware to not be having the digital license, at all, and the digital license to be completely deleted from it.

 

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Please help me reactivate my license.

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I've significantly upgraded my PC (new motherboard, storage), to the point where Windows 10 doesn't recognise it as the device I had my Windows 10 digital license on. When I go to settings - activation, I get error code 0xc004f213 which states no product
key was found on this device (I'm signed into my microsoft account which has the digital license from before). I proceed to trouble shoot, and then click I recently changed hardware on this device. It proceeds to take me to a screen which lists my devices,
but it only shows my Laptop which is running a separate product key/digital license (I bought windows 8.1 for my laptop and took the free upgrade, whereas this desktop PC was on windows 7 before I upgraded to 10). My PC isn't showing on this list.

I've been using this guide Need to reactivate Windows 10 after a hardware change? Here's how.

So how do I go about re-activating my Windows 10 Digital License on this device? Also, is livechat only open at certain times? because I've been trying to find it but I get directed to this forum and a phone number instead.

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