Are you sure about this? I find informatiin about this confusing. Ive just build a new computer taking out only 2 hard drives with my media on it and ny psu. When I installed windows 10 I reused the windows 8 retail key I had before.
My new machine has acticated fine. I plugged in my old hard drive with windows 10 on it for 30 min while I copied some stuff. I checked if that was still activated.... it was