Windows 10: New motherboard old mothoerboard fried can't seem to use my digital license activation

well I can't seem to use my digital license activation linked on my microsoft account even though i removed the previous "device(motherboard" that was last used with

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Activating Windows 10 with a digital license from a new SSD and new motherboard

Hi,

I upgraded from windows 7 to windows 10 and my windows settings say I have a digital license. I recently bought a new motherboard and new SSD. I cloned the OS from my old SSD to my new SSD and my PC can boot and I can log in, however it tells me that I need
to activate windows. I was under the assumption that the digital license I had would follow my account, so when I would log in it would activate windows but this doesn't seem to be the case.

Do I need to deactivate the digital license on the previous motherboard/SSD first before I can reactivate on my new hardware? That is the only other explanation I could think of as to why this isn't working, but I don't want to deactivate my digital license
on my old hardware only to have this issue persist on my current new hardware. Could I get confirmation? And if so, can I also get steps on how to properly dissociate my digital license from the old hardware before I can use it for my new hardware?

Thanks,

Jonathan

 

Windows 10 Digital Activation Issues on New Motherboard

I have used my Windows 10 Home Digital License to activate Windows on my new computer, and that worked fine, however, I needed to switch out my motherboard because of issues with my old one. This invalidated the license. Upon trying to reactive the digital
license, it fails to validate, saying, "We can’t activate your copy of Windows as the digital license for this device has already been used to reactivate Windows."

 

Activating Windows 10 with a digital license from a new SSD and new motherboard

Disassociating isn't going to help if your Windows 7 license was OEM. Also note that the free upgrade 10 Windows 10 carried a similar condition: Windows 10 was to be free for the life of the device that was upgraded. Changing the motherboard means the
end of the original device.