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- Motherboard
- Asus TUF Z390-Pro Gaming
- CPU
- i7-9700
- Graphics
- RX 570, UHD 630
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Any help on this would be much appreciated. I'm running OpenCore 0.6.1 with Catalina 10.15.6. On another drive I have Windows 10 fully updated. My main issue is that my legit copy of Windows 10 was invalidated because I think when I put on my new product key, it saw the serial and stats for my base hardware. I should not have put in my product key during Windows installation (is my guess). Dual Boot works fine now, and I can even use Boot Camp to change the startup disks (though none of the Apple Trackpad and Apple keyboard drivers appear to work unfortunately. That's a separate issue though).
I tried various guides to try to get dual boot on a single drive and it just didn't take until I did the following with two separate SSD drives.
I tried various guides to try to get dual boot on a single drive and it just didn't take until I did the following with two separate SSD drives.
- I have already created on a fully functional OpenCore EFI for Catalina on a dedicated drive on my Hack.
- I disconnected the dedicated macOS drive above.
- I installed a fresh copy of Windows 10 with a new legitimate product key.
- I put back the the dedicated macOS drive with OpenCore EFI.
- OC's boot menu could see Windows on the other drive as well as Catalina.
- I booted into Catalina and then I reset.
- I went into Windows.
- Windows was acting like there was some kind of security issue (asking me to revalidate passwords and stuff).
- Still didn't complain about invalidation.
- I installed the Boot Camp stuff.
- Reset again into Windows.
- Windows says the product key is being used by another machine.
- I later found out it was using the macOS serial Hack and the acidthera (OpenCore) brand for the mobo in Windows and that's what Microsoft sees.
- Is there a way so that I can just have Windows see the base Asus serial numbers and stuff?
- I'm guessing it has something to do with OC loading the Serial, etc. into NVRAM or the Bootstrap.efi being turned on, but Im not sure where to start and have found nothing on the Internet.