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Old Nov 22, 2015 | 2:36 pm
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When I cloned my friend's platter HD to a new 1 TB SSD, after doing the clone procedure in Acronis, I simply swapped out the drives and restarted the laptop. It burst into action (honestly, that's how fast SSDs are) and there was not, and never has been, any request from Microsoft to activate.
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