So good news, figured it out. I did the win7 to win10 upgrade and took an image. When I deployed the image I received the “not activated” I then clicked the “change product key” and entered the unique product key on the decal on top of the dell box & was able to authenticate. So although it’s not off the bios & is an extra step at least its authenticated and legit. So glad that worked. Thanks for your help

So good news, figured it out. I did the win7 to win10 upgrade and took an image. When I deployed the image I received the “not activated” I then clicked the “change product key” and entered the unique product key on the decal on top of the dell box & was able to authenticate. So although it’s not off the bios & is an extra step at least its authenticated and legit. So glad that worked. Thanks for your help

Thanks george1421. Licencing is so weird. I have a legit licence win 7 which i assume has a vlk, when I use a magic jelly bean keyfinder tool it shows the same product code across all machines, and each case has a unique product key code decal. So I know it’s legit…and its factory from Dell. I can then plug that machine into the internet and do a upgrade to Win 10 via MS and it will upgrade & activate and that box is legit & authenticated. However if I ghost it then it’s not legit. At the end of the day all those boxes will have win 10 on them. Frustrating. Guess I have to manually upgrade each box then. Thanks for letting me know though

I have a bunch of Dell optiplex 990 which have win 7 pro on them…all activated. I took one and upgraded it to Win10 via the windows media creator tool. After upgrade and applying all patches that systems shows as activated. Fired up ghost and made an image. Deployed image to another 990. It successfully took the image but…when Win 10 boots up it shows “not activated”.

I’m assuming the bios probably has the key for win7(there are physical win 7 product key decals on each case). Can we make this work with fog? I would hate to have to manually fire up each win7 machine and run the media creator tool, download and upgrade for the windows servers. I do not want to create a Win10 deploy image as then I will have to purchase a product key code and using the windows media creator tool is still a free upgrade

Thanks