Windows 10: Reactivate Windows 10 after hardware change without going into Windows itself

Hi,


I want to ask.


Is there a way to reactive Windows 10 after a significant hardware change such as replacing with a new motherboard and cpu only without going into Windows itself?


I am asking this because my current motherboard is fried so it pretty much is impossible to go into windows itself to reactive it since I can't even boot into windows.


I can't seem to find answers on the Microsoft site if there is other options to do it besides inside Windows itself.


I read up that this link: https://account.microsoft.com/devices/ lets me see my Windows 10 tied to my current hardware. I went into it and login and indeed I do see my old hardware set up. However I do not see a Digital License of some sort to let me map to new hardware.


Just wondering do i click the option to remove PC then I can install the new motherboard and cpu and my current hard drive which has Windows 10 will work just fine?


Another question is, if that does not work and require a fresh installation of windows. I don't have a problem reinstalling it. Just that my current hard drive that has Windows 10 is an upgrade from Windows 7. So do I need to reinstall windows 7 again and then upgrade to windows 10? Is that possible since I already used the Windows 7 key to upgrade to 10.


Thanks!

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Windows 10 reactivation on hardware changes

Hi Florea,

It is possible that Windows won't be able to identify your computer correctly that is why the operating system is not activated. To address your issue, we suggest that you follow the steps in this
article on how to reactivate your Windows 10 after a hardware change.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

 

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I just changed motherboards, and When I follow the the steps listed in the "reactivate windows 10 after hardware change" support page, it gives me the message "unable to activate windows" message after I sign in and identify my device,
with no error code, just a subheader that says "can't activate windows 10 on this device, try again later."