Some examples we heard about failing are: it’s a USA license running in a different country or it’s an Education License or you used a serial number that was compromised NOTE: Apparently, the license transfer will fail if your license is invalid. This ensures you have a backup of your old PC with a valid license. NOTE: A good idea (before transfering the AutoCAD license from your old PC to the new PC) is to setup AutoCAD to run in offline mode then clone your old PC hard drive. Your AutoCAD install CD comes with utility to do the job, see below…
That means you will have to activate your AutoCAD license without Autodesk – you do have some options: That’s right, Autodesk no longer support versions of AutoCAD (at the time of writing 2014 or earlier) which means that they will not give you a new authorization code. So you have an old PC with a working copy of AutoCAD and you want to upgrade to Windows 10? STOPand read this whole blog first before you wipe your working PC… Autodesk License Activation for older versions of AutoCAD
