Windows 10: Not able to activate retail oem windows 10 in brand new laptop? I had purchased the oem...

Not able to activate retail oem windows 10 in brand new laptop? I had purchased the oem product in 2019 but now it is not activating, windows is always asking me to get a geniune product key?

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Windows 10 REtail on OEM laptop

There’s a possibility that this type of question might have been asked before, but I am not able to find the exact reference on this site.

Soon I am going to buy a laptop with Windows 10 OEM. (Most likely Acer brand) Generally such laptops do have a special recovery partition to refresh/reinstall Windows if the need be. The vendors also provide some app to take an offline image of OS on to a USB Pen drive so that if necessary the OEM OS can be installed from that USB drive to get back the laptop to factory default state.

However if I don’t create such an offline USB image and in the event my HDD crashes, then I have lost my OEM Windows 10 on it.

I am aware that service center generally provides reactivated OEM Windows for a small fee in such cases. However instead of going to the service center, can a downloaded Windows 10 from Microsoft accept the OEM key embedded in the UEFI Firmware and proceed with successful install & activation on such an OEM Windows 10 Laptop or will it refuse to install in the first place, or will it demand a new retail key before successful activation?

Any clarity on this matter would be great to know.

 

Windows 10 Activation key OEM or retail

Hi everyone,

I like to buy a retail version of windows 10 home but I cannot find a store that sells it here. I plan to purchase online an activation key of windows 10 home. I just like to ask if the activation key purchased online is an OEM or Retail. Thank you.

 

oem to retail

Hi FrankUnger1

Where did you purchase that OEM copy of WIndows 10, you will have to check with the seller to see if they can provide you with a deal on purchasing a Retail Licence.

Microsoft do not provide a way of going from OEM to Retail as they do not sell OEM licences to the general public . ..