Hi All
My new Win 10 PC arrived from PC Specialist yesterday, it all set up OK, powered on etc and then I added an additional SATA hard drive. At some point after this I was trying to chnage the number of icons that appear down near where the time is but it wouldnt allow me as it said the machine is not activated. I try to activate windows and I get a message that says "Windows reported that the hardware of your device has changed. Error code: 0XC004F211" i tried the troubleshoot and I get no options accept go to store. Even the "recently changed hardware on this device" yields no results that help me.
This is a brand new machine fresh out the box, would adding a harddrive invoke the activation thing?
I understand the key is supposed to be hard wired intot he bios, is there a way I can fin dout what this key is?
I didnt get to see if it was activated before adding the hard drive so ive no idea if that changed the state. Any advice welcomed.
My new Win 10 PC arrived from PC Specialist yesterday, it all set up OK, powered on etc and then I added an additional SATA hard drive. At some point after this I was trying to chnage the number of icons that appear down near where the time is but it wouldnt allow me as it said the machine is not activated. I try to activate windows and I get a message that says "Windows reported that the hardware of your device has changed. Error code: 0XC004F211" i tried the troubleshoot and I get no options accept go to store. Even the "recently changed hardware on this device" yields no results that help me.
This is a brand new machine fresh out the box, would adding a harddrive invoke the activation thing?
I understand the key is supposed to be hard wired intot he bios, is there a way I can fin dout what this key is?
I didnt get to see if it was activated before adding the hard drive so ive no idea if that changed the state. Any advice welcomed.