Windows 10: Unable to activate on clean Install of Windows 10 after replacing hard drive (Error 0x803fa067)

Hi,


I've tried various suggested solutions to this problem with no luck so far, any help would be greatly appreciated..


I had Windows 8 pre-installed on my laptop which I upgraded for free to Windows 10. My hard drive failed so I installed Windows 10 Pro to hard drive number 2 and activated successfully using Produkey.


Now after this 2nd hard drive has failed I have installed Windows 10 Pro on my 3rd hard drive but I am now unable to activate using the key displayed in Produkey.


I receive the error 0x803fa067 when attempting to Change Product Key from settings.


Any advice would be a great help.


Thanks,

Darren

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Win 10 clean install question

This is what I would do:

• Shrink the hard drive partition until it's small enough to fit on the SSD.
• Clone the Windows 8.1 setup to the SSD.
• Boot off the SSD and make sure that Windows 8.1 is happy (i.e., no complaints about activation).
• Upgrade to Windows 10 on the SSD.

This way, you know that Windows 8.1 has a valid setup on the SSD before doing anything else. Plus, the Windows 10 upgrade will be processed much faster on the SSD. Finally, you still have the hard drive setup to fall back to if anything goes wrong.

 

Replacing old hard drive, need way to copy Windows installation across

Hey Guys,
What would be the best way of copying/imaging the entire contents of an old system drive over to a replacement hard disk for the same machine? I need to copy the Windows installations and all other data to the new drive, and then format the old drive to use as a backup.

Any suggestions? *Smile

 

Is it time for Windows 10 already?

Here's a good step by step guide on doing a fresh install.

How to clean install Windows 10 from a USB drive - Software - Feature - HEXUS.net