Clean Install - Same PC, New Drive

I just purchased a new PCie drive for my PC which will be used as my main OS Drive and the drive that all apps including Resolve will reside on. I am planning on doing a new install of windows and all the apps from new.

My question is do I have to "Deactivate" the Resolve license or just download and reinstall the Resolve on the new drive since it's the same PC.

Thanks in advance.

[Dwaine Maggart]

You don't have to deactivate, but you should, if you can.

If you don't, it will use the 2nd of your 2 available activations.

Then if you use it a third time, on a different system, it will deactivate the current activations and start the activation count over.

Thanks. I will take your advice and deactivate it before I swap the drives.

Good morning

How I can deactivate?
Second question, if I only clone whole drive C:\ to new bigger drive, with fresh install DaVinci only, then I should also deactivate previous activation?

Many thanks,


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[Peter Chamberlain]

If you change the drive.. you will need to re-activate.. so de-activate first from help menu.

But I didn't this before I uninstall previous instance .

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You can “visualise” it like this overly simplified - every time you activate Resolve on a new machine or on an old machine you after making any hardware changes they make a record in their database with the time of activation and will allow Resolve to run only on the last two machines. As simple as that. If you install Resolve on your machine and activate it - they count it as “Activation 1”. If you replace the system drive on that machine and install and activate it again - they count this as “Activation 2”, so you can “run” Resolve on your “old” machine (although it does not exist physically anymore) and you can use Resolve only on your current machine.
If you install and activate Resolve on a laptop they count this as “Activation 3” and will allow you to run Resolve on “Activation 2” and “Activation 3” - your current machine and the laptop. Now if you install and activate Resolve on another machine - let’s say a Mac because you are not using the the laptop anymore - this will be counted as “Activation 4” and it will kick out your “Activation 2” and you can use Resolve on “Activation 3” (the laptop) and “Activation 4” (the Mac). Yeah, but you want to use it with “Activation 2” and “Activation 4”? No issues - just start Resolve on “Activation 2” machine - it will ask you for the license key. Once you punch it in it will create “Activation 5” for the same machine that had “Activation 2” and will kick out “Activation 3” - the laptop. So now you can run Resolve on the Mac - “Activation 4” and “Activation 5” - the same that held “Activation 2”, but not on the “Activation 3” - the laptop.
As simple as that

[Dwaine Maggart]

After the 3rd activation, the first 2 activations will be de-activated. The 3rd activation would be the first in the new cycle. You could then do a 4th activation, which would be the 2nd in that activation cycle. Then if you activated a 5th time, the 3rd and 4th activations would be de-activated, and the cycle starts anew.

You de-activate the license in the Resolve Help menu.