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SteveRodrigue
Sep 23, 2026Copper Contributor
Windows 11 won't activate following BIOS upgrade and reinstall (0xC004F213)
I upgraded my bios and did a full reinstall of Windows 11 on my PC. Everything went well, but I get the following error: 0xC004F213 When I follow the instruction to reactivate after a "hardware c...
SteveRodrigue
Sep 27, 2026Copper Contributor
This doesn't explain how I lost a license by only updating my BIOS and doing a repartition/format of my main NVMe drive. I did nothing else.
My PC is still seen in my account (in my devices section). So, I'm a bit confounded. What am I supposed to do next? I remember having updated my PC before and having to (re)activate, but every time it happened before, it worked. Not this time.