Msmith841

I've not heard of those before. May do some research

I've tried 3 different ms answer desk people. I'm not convinced they know a great deal more than I do. That and they all wanted to sell me a product key for £190!

Thanks for all the input. The guy I bought it from has deleted his account. I've raised it with eBay. We'll see what happens there. Got another code from eBay, worked perfectly. I still don't understand why my counterfeit code worked for so long. It must've been an oem code and it came up as invalid at ms as I was trying to use it with another board. Still all sorted now. Possibly time for some over clocking fun!

Ah OK, thank you though

I have the key, only been used on this pc as far as I know, just need to change to the new mobo

Thanks for the quick reply. She didn't even say it was an oem copy, just that the product key is invalid

OK, so further to another chat with someone from Ms again, it seems I have been managing to use an illegal copy of windows since November last year. For some reason this has all coincided with a hdd clone and a change of motherboard. Has anyone ever heard of this before?

Thanks for your reply. It seemed unlikely to me that I could use Windows in this way for so long if it is counterfeit. I have proof of purchase linked to my eBay account. Yes I am that stupid I bought from eBay!

hi all! I bought a product key for windows 8.1 pro x64 last year, created installation media, installed onto a SSD, performed lots of updates and even signed up for windows 10. My SSD then began to show signs of failure so i cloned the drive using Reflect. Now windows keeps asking me to activate my copy of windows so i spoke to an MS help desk person. they said that my product must be counterfeited, when asked why i was allowed to create the media, install windows, update windows several times and sign up for 10 they seemed very reluctant to answer. My question is this; does it seem like that a counterfeit product key would last this long and allow me to do all these things? Any advice/help would be massively appreciated! i would likely to avoid the £190 price tag of a new product key from microsoft, also i'm a uk dweller if anyone has any suggested places to buy a new key cheaply!

So I am almost a complete noob to the pc building world. Earlier in the year I built myself a gaming machine. I then proceeded to download 400gb of games thanks to steam sales! I then found a Kingston 120gb ssd for cheap on Amazon so thought, hey why not. Now I am all but clueless on getting it running. Basically, I'd like windows, steam client, Web browser, antivirus and the likes to be on the ssd and all my games to stay on the hdd. I'd really like to do this without having to do a fresh install. I also don't have a 500gb external kicking around anywhere. Can anyone direct me to a relevant article, or even YouTube video would be great, thanks in advance