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Windows 10 has just made that process more transparent and with the most recent build made the process of transferring eligible retail licenses to another machine even easier.Ī digital license (called a digital entitlement in Windows 10, Version 1511) is a method of activation in Windows 10 that doesn't require you to enter a product key. Yes Windows has always been activated based off a hardware fingerprint though. I have verified an MSDN developer key would work, so activation itself isn't the issue, but the lack of a key in BIOS/UEFI appears to be the problem.Does MS 'fingerprint' hardware information during the free upgrade / activation and store it, so that the next re-install queries MS for the fingerprint and activates Windows 10? It just points me to the Microsoft Store. If you think you do have a valid license or key, select Troubleshoot below. These come with a Windows Product Key, but these also fail with: We can't activate Windows on this device because you don't have a valid digital license or product key. Ours are fresh and the seal is unbroken, reading: W8P/W10 32/64BIT SVC DPK Unfortunately, the devices I have on hand have left warranty support, I have detected one in warranty unit with the problem, but it's not currently available for me to work with.Īfter Dell servicing, we have been provided Dell paperwork for reactivating Windows that matches this image of the card. Looking up the Dell Service Tag online, it shows that it came with Windows 10 Pro: 619-AHKN : Win 10 Pro 64 English, French, Spanish

Units that fail to activate via WDS/PXE, fail to activate using this tool to install as well. I have also tried the Dell OS Recovery Tool at, which actually checks the Dell serial against Dell's database and knows that it has a Windows 10 Pro License. We following a standard reimage over WDS/PXE for all the units, and units with the OEM key in the BIOS/UEFI activate fine, but others that do not fail. Wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey

I have additionally found I can predetect this devices using the following DOS command which, when successful, pulls the OEM key in BIOS/UEFI: I have found that following the guide here at /the-oem-product-key-and-oem-system-locked-preinstallation/ shows the laptops impacted lack a MSDM field from BIOS. We are offboarding a hundred plus Dell Latitude E74 model laptops by reimaging them with base Windows 10 Pro, and about a quarter of them fail to activate Windows 10 Pro due to not having a valid digital license.