the_msp
Lifetime Supporting Member
I've had a laptop die on me, with a win7 install. Bad news is, S5K had borrowed a license from a dongle onto it, then it died.
Have installed S5K again in a VM on a new laptop, plugged the dongle in and it says no activations available after importing the key stored on the USB.
Strange thing is the (dead) laptop will boot into windows 10 on a different HDD, but with the win7 HDD it's just a black screen constant even though there are activity lights on the laptop for HDD access etc.
I have removed the win7 HDD and can access files on it on another computer.
If I can't get the win7 to boot into windows again, float the license back to the dongle, am I goosed?
Have installed S5K again in a VM on a new laptop, plugged the dongle in and it says no activations available after importing the key stored on the USB.
Strange thing is the (dead) laptop will boot into windows 10 on a different HDD, but with the win7 HDD it's just a black screen constant even though there are activity lights on the laptop for HDD access etc.
I have removed the win7 HDD and can access files on it on another computer.
If I can't get the win7 to boot into windows again, float the license back to the dongle, am I goosed?