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I recently changed my ssd with win 11 pro installed, for a higher capacity one, but today win 11 is asking me to activate it

my windows is supposed to have a digital signature

This is never sent to me when I make the win10 to win 11 update somebody could help me please3

 

Product number: 4DM99AA#ABA Serial number: [Personal Information Removed]

 

 

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Hi:

 

You should be able to activate Windows 11 using the W10 product key in your notebook's BIOS.

 

Install the free showkey plus app from the Microsoft store that will show you the W10 OEM product key in your notebook's BIOS

 

ShowKeyPlus - Microsoft Store Apps

 

Change the installed key the report shows (if there is one) to the OEM product key that the report gave you.

 

How To Change Product Key In Windows 11 [Tutorial] - YouTube

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@Paul_Tikkanen 

 

Actually my Windows 10 now Windows 11 use same key as shown

 

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BH
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@banhien 

 

Yes, that is true but the person's W11 is not activated, so there was a problem with W11 not picking up the OEM product key.

 

The person's only option is to make sure that the OEM key is used to activate Windows.

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I installed the software but it did not solve the problem.
I put the key again but it did not accept it.
I also tried to get the key from cmd using this comand 

wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey

but it didn't show may product key 

 

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Sorry, that didn't work.

 

I don't know why it didn't so the only other suggestion I can offer would be to use the HP cloud recovery client utility to make a bootable USB recovery drive and reinstall Windows.

 

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp141001-141500/sp141125.exe 

 

I have attached the instructions for how to use the utility, below.

 

 

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