Deadpool
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I have a Samsung RV511 which started off as a Windows 7 machine. I upgraded it to 10 a few years ago for which I had to remove the wifi card to get round the known issue of it causing failed installs.
If my memory serves me well, I had to install an older version of Win10 (21H2) because it wouldn't start up with the latest version.
Skip forward to yesterday. I decided to go for Windows 11. I decided to pop in a spare HDD in order to preserve the Win10 install, just in case.
So I've done a clean install using an ISO USB made using Rufus, avoiding the TPM checks, ticking the "I don't have a licence" box, and choosing 11 Home. All went well.
However, it refuses to activate.
I popped the Win10 HDD back in, and got the Key out of the registry. I also checked the type, and it says Retail.
Put the Win11 HDD back in and entered the Windows 10 key, which it declined, so I typed in the win7 key off the back of the machine, and as expected it didn't accept that either.
The error messages are: "We can't activate windows at this time because you don't have a valid digital licence or product key. (0x803fa067)"
"We can't activate Windows on this device at the moment. You can try activating it again later, or go to the Store to buy genuine Windows. Error code 0x803FA069"
I read about gatherosstate on 10 Forums, popped the old HDD back in, ran gatherosstate in Windows 10 and created a GenuineTicket.xml file.
Booted up windows 11 again and copied the GenuineTicket.xml file to the appropriate location. To no avail.
Have I done anything wrong, or overlooked something?
Will it work if I put the Windows 10 HDD back in and do an in-situ upgrade? Or is Windows 11 just totally incompatible with this old machine?
If my memory serves me well, I had to install an older version of Win10 (21H2) because it wouldn't start up with the latest version.
Skip forward to yesterday. I decided to go for Windows 11. I decided to pop in a spare HDD in order to preserve the Win10 install, just in case.
So I've done a clean install using an ISO USB made using Rufus, avoiding the TPM checks, ticking the "I don't have a licence" box, and choosing 11 Home. All went well.
However, it refuses to activate.
I popped the Win10 HDD back in, and got the Key out of the registry. I also checked the type, and it says Retail.
Put the Win11 HDD back in and entered the Windows 10 key, which it declined, so I typed in the win7 key off the back of the machine, and as expected it didn't accept that either.
The error messages are: "We can't activate windows at this time because you don't have a valid digital licence or product key. (0x803fa067)"
"We can't activate Windows on this device at the moment. You can try activating it again later, or go to the Store to buy genuine Windows. Error code 0x803FA069"
I read about gatherosstate on 10 Forums, popped the old HDD back in, ran gatherosstate in Windows 10 and created a GenuineTicket.xml file.
Booted up windows 11 again and copied the GenuineTicket.xml file to the appropriate location. To no avail.
Have I done anything wrong, or overlooked something?
Will it work if I put the Windows 10 HDD back in and do an in-situ upgrade? Or is Windows 11 just totally incompatible with this old machine?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Samsung RV511
- CPU
- i3
- Memory
- 4GB