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DiamondZircon
So I have a similar problem, I have identical systems with dead HDs that because updates are a mess, a reinstall did not work (updates failed about halfway along and would not continue, yes I installed all the KBs associated with that problem). I have a healthy fully-updated system that I can clone to these other systems new HDs, but that mungs up activation. But they didn't want to reactivate with their original keys. Now what?
No, I am not installing Windows 10. Win10 drove me to linux. At least once my eyes stopped bleeding.
ETA: could not get through to phone activ. Chat support is just a bot, useless.
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