Windows 10: Windows 10 Pro activation failed - Recently changed mainboard+cpu

So my old mainboard which I bought 11 years ago and houses an AMD Phenom X2 CPU broke down last week, and since I can no longer find a cheap mainboard that supports that CPU, I decided to "upgrade" to a new mainboard and switch to Intel i3 cpu, at the same time installing new pieces of DDR4 RAM too.

However, my windows 10 pro is installed on my Samsung SSD and it works just fine with the new hardware, so I can go straight in into Windows, and later I discovered that my windows activation status has changed to 'not activated'.

After a lot of troubleshooting and reading several articles, I came to realise that I may not have linked my previous activation to my microsoft account I have a hotmail account.

So the trouble now is I cannot get my windows activated using that product key I bought from last time which I purchased in either 2017 or 2018, I don't remember.


What should I do?

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This question is probably asked before, but I cannot find it.

I want to upgrade the mainboard and CPU and wonder if I can activate the Windows 10, which I used with the old mainboard, on the new mainboard/CPU?

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