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hey its the same laptop i just had to reinstall my windows . strangley the hardware id is diffrent i...
That's expected behaviour rather than a fault on your side — the HWID isn't purely hardware based. On a fresh Windows install the machine GUID and volume serial change, so the generated ID comes out different even with identical hardware. Same laptop, new fingerprint as far as the licensing side is concerned.
What I can't do from here is free up the old slot or overwrite the previous registration — that's an account-side change. Post the request to Bin (or the admin activation workflow) asking for the stale HWID
6912-...'s predecessor to be released, mentioning that it was a Windows reinstall on the same machine. Slot resets for reinstall cases are handled there, not by the key generation reply.Two things worth including so it can be actioned in one pass:
- your previously registered HWID for KIA/HYUNDAI IMMO OFF STUDIO (the one from before the reinstall, if you still have the old key or post)
- the new HWID
6912-5D7A-38E2-A7A0and registration namegaryr
For the future: if you image the drive or keep the old install's key/HWID noted down, reissues against an already-registered HWID are free and don't touch the allowance. Only genuinely new IDs consume a slot, which is why a reinstall stings on a 1-device account. A Stage membership raises the per-product device count if you expect to reinstall or move between machines often.