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Not trying to do anything malicious or violate copyrights. Just out of pure curiosity.

If dd creates a full clone of a disk, will it work if I use dd to make a full copy of windows 10 with a license key to another drive and boot it on another computer and have it still worked?

Algo7
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Normally it would detect a hardware change, and you'd need to activate it again. That's a typical disaster recovery scenario, where your old computer was destroyed and you need to recover from backup.

Windows 10 encourages you to link a Microsoft Account to your computer. I'm not sure what complications would occur if two installations were signed in from the same product key.

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  • But let's say it's something like ubuntu, dd should work fine as a full backup right? – Algo7 Feb 24 '21 at 21:28
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    That's right. I'm saying it will work for Windows 10 also, re-activation is pretty normal thing to do and you shouldn't have license issues. I have a few PCs that did the Windows 7 -> Windows 10 free upgrade, in that case a Microsoft Account might be necessary to migrate hardware. – axus Feb 24 '21 at 22:09
  • Ok. Thank you for your valuable information. – Algo7 Feb 25 '21 at 02:49