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It’s not burned into the BIOS, instead Microsoft maintains a database mapping licenses to hardware identifiers. But transferable licenses still exist, and enter
by layer8 1y ago
It’s not burned into the BIOS, instead Microsoft maintains a database mapping licenses to hardware identifiers. But transferable licenses still exist, and enterprise volume licenses are yet a different beast, so it all depends on what Windows license the PC was originally sold with, if any.
- FirmwareBurner 1y ago>It’s not burned into the BIOS, instead Microsoft maintains a database mapping licenses to hardware identifiers. Wrong. IT IS 100% stored in the UEFI firmware, specifically ACPI tables, MSDM field. Only if that exists, it is then verified on-line for activation to make sure the license is genuine and matches the device ID you're referring to for witch the license was sold(typically for OEM) or if it's portable.[1] On linux you should be retrieve the license via something like: sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM OR sudo acpidump | grep MSDM [1] https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-find-windows-10-oem-product-key-command/ https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-find-windows-10-oem-prod...