Windows 10: Activate already activated Windows 10

Hello there,


I have a year old Lenovo laptop which I reset a month ago. It came pre-installed with Windows 10 Home edition.


I updated everything after resetting and things were working just fine. I hadn't used it since then and when I turned it on today, it asked me to activate Windows which is totally surprising.


As I mentioned earlier, it came pre-installed with Windows 10 Home, which completely baffled me. I tried troubleshooting it by going to Settings > Update and Security > Activation, without any luck.


After clicking on 'Troubleshoot' nothing gets fixed and on the right hand side it says Activation error 0xC004F050 under "Have a question?"


I reset it again today hoping things will be back to normal but nothing happened. It still is asking me to activate Windows.


The bottom picture is after I click on 'Troubleshoot'. Note how Product ID and Product Key just vanish and there is that error code on the right hand side.


What do I do with this mess? I hope someone helps me out quickly. Thanks in advance.

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Windows 10 Activation (Insider)

How long did you wait for activation?
When I re-installed with a fresh install... it took a few hours to sync and activate.
However, it did, finally, activate.

 

Windows 10 Activation (Insider)

I did a full clean install of Windows 10 a while back and it will not activate. I didn't do a clean install from Windows 7/8/8.1 it was from Windows 10 (activated) so I expected it to activate just fine since it was fine before hand.

My Windows 10 license wasn't created from a previous Windows 7/8/8.1 key I got it from signing up to be an insider back in Nov of 2014. I installed a preview build on my laptop from the insider program and it worked just fine and it automatically upgraded to newer and newer preview builds and then to the full release automatically, fully activated and working fine. I did a full clean install not long ago (expect it to go through without issue since it was working before) and now it will not activate and I can't find any info on how to get it to activate and I can't seem to find the insider Windows 10 key.

Microsoft online support was useless and the gave me the toll free number to tech support.. I am currently on the phone waiting, they said it could be a 1hr 30min wait.. sigh.. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

Windows 10 Activation (Insider)

This kinda sucks. However, if one is upgrading from a retail W7/8, then it should activate on different hardware, with possible phone activation required if it's been over 120 days or whatever the timeout period is now since the last activation. Remember to erase the copy on the old hardware, of course.