Windows XP, 7, 8 and 8.1 OEM licenses - those that come with the specific hardware, are non-transferable as they are only legally licensed to the original hardware they were installed for. Mark - hard to say what your situation and process was in the past.

Where do I find the process to transfer licenses? So why did the 'cloning' process work for essentially the same hard drive that started in a Toshiba to my existing Lenovo? I am now trying to go from a Lenovo purchased in 2012 to one recently purchased and yet what worked before won't work now? Apologies I am a Mechanical Engineer and not a computer whiz. Acronis True Image is also activated based on hardware signature but you can move a license to your new hardware and reactivate it by following a process that will be shown when the number of valid licenses for activation is exceeded. You may also need to reactivate other software on the new system too, if that software activation is based on the hardware signature where it was installed, as some MS Office type applications use. You would need to have either a full Retail version of Windows to allow it to be moved, or have a license for the same version of Windows for the new hardware.

one branded by Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer etc, then this is not transferable to any other computer as its activation is valid only for the computer where it was originally activated. If your old laptop was running an OEM version of Windows, i.e. Yes, you can transfer your old laptop Windows OS and installed programs / data etc to new hardware, but the version of Windows will determine whether this will need to be reactivated on the new hardware or not. I am afraid that your impression is not correct.

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