Windows 10: M$ block my key

Here my sad story, on the 29th of July I updated my son PC from 7 ultimate to 10 pro. Last Monday, I received an Intel 240GB SSD to replace the WD 640gb Black, Before switch I check the windows key and it was not he one of the 7 ultimate, so I guessed Microsoft give a key to the 10 upgrade. Anyway I replace the drive and unplug the other 2 tb for make sure the install don’t mess with it. I then used the usb key I made with the ISO I created with the update tools. At the install it ask for a serial, I skip, when finished it inform me that I have to charge the key, and the one that was indicated was the one I take note before switch, I called MS to activate by phone and they told me the key is now blocked because I try to install t with a wrong key, WTF…… they told me I have to purchase it @ $ 200 ….I send them to h… and use a spare Windows 8 that I will never use to install it and then upgrade to 10…… So M$ not finally enforce their dream to tie the key to the motherboard but also to a HD…… As result all my PC will be now on Linux mint except the one of my son because he need his Battlefield 4 and Hardline….. I call M$ quite few hundred time to activate customers PC by phone and never have a problem before. Seriously block a key… they even told me I can’t reinstall Windows 7 with it, good thing the moron on the phone don’t realize it was not even a Windows 7 key…..

But where this key was coming from ????? I have 3 ultimate key and none of them was this one…..And what I did wrong….

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Hello I m not able to block or unblock numbers which I was able to do before , i have tried looking for updates ,my mobile is up to date but I m still not able to block or unblock

 

Surface PRO 3 Windows 10 product key blocked

I just upgraded my Surface Pro 3 to Windows 10, but I`m having problem to activate it.

I'm seen a activation error 0xC004E003 "The Activation Server determined the especified product key has bene blocked.

I should haver a fere upgrade. It is a Surface Pro 3!!

Vinicius Aguiar

 

You can't use a Windows 10 Upgrade key to install clean like that. MS has not "blocked" your key, because it's a generic key issued to every single Windows 10 upgrade. It's useless, and you cannot use that key for anything. When you try to use that key, it says it's blocked because the key cannot be used that way.

I don't understand what you mean by "it inform me that I have to change the key" as windows does not do that. If you had previously had a successful Windows 10 upgrade on that PC before, then skipping the key during install (every time it asks, it may ask several times) is all that is needed.

I have just created this flowchart which describes exactly what you must do for any possible situation when you are attempting to install an upgrade version of Windows 10.

 

I don't use that key .. I skip all the request for the key I right click my computer and it was not activated .the windows 7 I used before was not even an one, it was full retail. When I try to activate the key was already there .....The install don't recognize the pc as one with 10 installed before because in their data base it was not with the same hd. I forgot to mention the hd before was set up in bios in raid because a small ssd was use for cache. The new install was on ahci . Before I switch I removed the cache and set in ahci and re booted, ms said u can't reinstall if you make a substantial change on a oem but it's a retail. Everything was done by the book. It's crap their "will reinstall on the same machine". If you change ur drive and unraid like I did you are dead.

 

After tough about it I wonder if the problem was not with the fact the motherboard have 2 bios (rog) so it maybe even see it as another pc if he both on the other bios like I think it did because I reset it for the reason that my son forget his bios password i must have try to force both on the other bios to see if I can activate.anyway it's too late. Pic work fine now.......but lesson taken all install of2012r2 server will be on vm. Not bs activation if you change the motherboard or whatever



ler say it was not a typical install. Raid-achi. 2 bios....but the guy on phone should have give me the code, I should have call back and try someone else.....

 

I understand that you are dissatisfied with what you currently have. Being a paying customer you rightfully do not want to be dealt with as if you were a software pirate.

This is what you need: After your initial and successful upgrade to Windows 10, I expect that this upgrade also activated properly, right?
If this is the case, then you should be able to exchange parts of that PC, including the harddisk, and to reinstall Windows 10 and it should activate. You should not provide a key. Just hit the "Skip", "Not now", "Really not now", "Stop annoying me" button. When Microsoft tells you that your key would be "blocked", maybe it is only the wording, which is not so clever. In fact, your key is irrelevant. You don't need it. The activation server should recognize your PC as having been upgraded and should then activate it automatically. Without entering a key.

I am unsure what your BIOS might have to do with the problem.

 

There is no Key for an upgrade install for someone to give you, Upgrades can only be accomplished by upgrading an existing
system. There is nothing anyone can do on the phone to give you a code to activate an upgrade.

The only thing that uses keys is full install version.

 

You can do a clean installation after you have at least once upgraded. That will work and it will activate and that, just like the upgrade itself, without entering a key.

What you mean is the retail version, which you buy in a shop or on amazon.com or where ever. In order to activate that one, you will need to enter the key, which you got with your purchase. If you are eligible for the free upgrade, you will after that not have such a retail version.

That is what I think as well. They should just have told him that with the right words.

 

Maybe what you should have done was a clone of the original HDD. That would have solved the whole mess.

Nevermind. Your post was hard to read and after rereading it I now understand what you tried to do. I thought you already had a Win 10 install and were just swapping out the HDD. This forum won't let me delete a post so therefore the edit and explanation.

 

I tried the upgrade method using the usb iso from win7 to 10 and kept getting an error message. Since I had everything backed up I just opened the file on the USB stick and hit auto run and got it to at least start. I then did a clean install instead of the upgrade, after formatting C drive. When it was done I got the activation error (blocked key) message. I called Microsoft and couldn't believe how fast I got thru. The guy in India (or parts unknown) said the blocked key is a valid key that was installed when I installed Win10, confirming I had a legit copy of Windows to install from. He said the block is basically putting me in a que and it will be activated in 7-10 days....if not call back and they will manually do it then. Sounds good to me. He said I wasnt the only person on the planet with this issue!!
BTW.. clean installing win10 overwrote my win7 recovery file on the hd of my laptop....so there's no going back!!

 

sorry this tread is all mess up because I have to use my iPad with cellular at work. I will correct some misunderstanding tomorrow with a real keyboard and not $&@&&$ auto corrector.

but let say today I switch a had for a sad in my laptop and everything work fine. The problem with the upgrade version is when you change hardware they can't do nothing to help activate by phone. So conclusion is don't upgrade keep your windows 7 if you plan to change hardware.



The retail os I talk about was my 7 ultimate......... I will not have problem to activate by phone a retail windows 10 .......

just dont change a motherboard or a raid card or raid bios option with the upgrade ........... This what give me problem I was expecting the phone activation will work.


Cloning ... We have so many problem with it in the first day of sad that I still don't trust it......

 

Ok here a better explanation of the problem;

As I said this was the Pc of my 13 years old son, the C; drive was a mess, even after the update it take 3 minutes too both, I the time I want to reformat and make a fresh Windows 7 install before upgrade but he refuse it. He said he will lost all his stuff ( he make a lot of mod on certain games ). I was using Intel Rapide Storage to cache the c: with a ssd. For do so you have to put the sata in raid in the BIOS. This bring my first mistake, the day before I planed to deactivate it and reboot before upgrade but in the rush I simply forget it. Actually I don’t forget it, my son put a password in the BIOS and I reset it remove the raid. But this was the mistake it remove it only on 1 bios as I use the button at the back of the Asus ROG board instead of removing the battery and short the connectors.

During the fresh re install, I never enter a key, they ask me at the beginning for one and also at the end, they asked twice. It,s when I right click computer I see it was not activate and I try to activate it fail and ask me for a key ( I remember at one time the default upgrade one was written , the last part of it ) the I Google to get the phone # to activate….. I fall on a moron, instead of tell me he can’t do anything, he ask me my Windows 7 key,,,,,, and after he inform me that he block it. That I will not be able to use it for reinstall Windows 7 …..it’s then I guess really piss off. He said he block it because I tried to activate a copy on Windows 10 on a different computer with a 7 key, that was totally BS.

So this is the story, I made few mistake and I fall on a moron who block my full retail Windows 7 Ultimate key that I pay .

But this is a lesson; don’t expect to activate your upgrade if you change hardware. A HD is probably not enough but in my case the raid thing was. I remember after tht every time I add or change a raid card you have to reactivate. The double BIOS still also questionable. Let say it was not the typical Mom and Dad setup.

So if you have to change the motherboard, reinstall Windows 7, activate it by phone and then upgrade….but do so before next July…..or it will not be free. Unless, is the 7 key still good for activation after you upgrade ? It must be so if you want to downgrade.

What make me mad, is the stupid moron who block my legit key………… Now I used one of my windows 8 my Technet key to reinstall the thing.

So no I don’t try to upgrade with a retail Windows 10 , and I never enter a key at install. Hope it’s clearer now

As for the Linux think, forget it….no games, don’t give me the steam option, I play Stalker and battlefield , my accounting software run only in vm on it , no Adobe stuff……

 

Are you sure the Windows 7 key is blocked? My Windows 7 keys will not activate automatically over the internet, but when I call the Microsoft activation phone number, give them the installation ID, tell the computer asked question that I have installed this on only one computer, they respond with the activation code.

There is a big difference between being locked out of automatic internet activation and the key being completely blocked by Microsoft.

 

i had same issue as my windows 8 was oem and i changed the mobo etc since first creating my microsoft account on win 8, and since it's technically not the same pc, it refused the win 10 update and had to buy a windows 10 key. the original win 8 oem key could be blocked as it's not on the original hardware, but didn't think Microsoft would be that bad. but i was always able to reinstall win 8 oem and activate with the automatic phone service.