Windows 10 license transfer failed

[Vladimir Mihailovski]

I had a Windows 10 Pro license installed on my current laptop. I bought a new laptop and tried to transfer the windows license to my new laptop, because I want to give away my old laptop and keep the license. I have a Retail windows license which should allow transfer from one computer to another.

I used this article to do the transfer: How to transfer a Windows 10 license to a new PC or hard drive | Windows Central.

Executed these commands on my current laptop:

[COLOR=rgba(16, 16, 16, 1)]slmgr /upk[/COLOR]

[COLOR=rgba(16, 16, 16, 1)]slmgr /cpky
[/COLOR]
This removed the license successfully from my current laptop.

When I try to enter the same windows key to my new laptop, with following command: [COLOR=rgba(16, 16, 16, 1)]slmgr /ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx[/COLOR] I get this message:
When I try to re-enter the same product key to my current laptop (the one I removed the license from), I get the same error message. It seems like the product key was invalidated.

Additional info: When I go to the Activate windows page on my current laptop it seems my windows is still activated:

..but then I open System from Control panel is displays as not activated, which makes sense, because I removed the license.


If anyone had some similar issues please share. Thanks in advance.

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