Windows 10: Why after microsoft gave me win 10 free. I build a new computer... Auto Activation says I...

I was given windows 10 free by you a long time ago.Did not use it right away.Wanted to stay on 7...Eventually did use it.Did not like it.Reloaded 7...Later reinstalled win 10.I have been hacked a few times.That prompted me to clone my OS. So I have 2 drives with win 10 on it. I only use 1 at a time.if crashed, I put 2nd drive in, reclone it. Use clone drive till I need to clone again...Now...I built a totally new computer.Installed win 10!Used my key.Win does not like it.Did all steps available to me by YOU.Even auto system to get activated.At the end of the process.I am asked "how many com

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Win 10 clean install question

Hello everyone,

my brother in law has bought a new computer yesterday still with win 8.1 on it, which he'll be upgrading to windows 10. I'm guessing non pro edition. So far I've determined that if you want to do a clean install after the upgrade you don't use an updated productkey, rather microsoft registers somehow your hardware id and auto activates.

Now here's my worry, the computer isn't coming with an ssd, and I'm building that in tommorow, and I want to do the clean install on the ssd understandably.
My question is, will this alter the hardware ID in such a way that Win 10 won't activate anymore. I know there's a 30 day grace period to fix things, but I'd rather get everything right straight away.
I'm also wondering if I can just format the former system drive after win 10 has been activated on the SSD or if this will screw up some activation logging file or whatever other important stuff they've somehow left on the older installation.

If it doesnt activate it would mean I'd have to get into contact with microsofts help desk, which I reckon will be extremely hard to reach anyways, and my experience with them hasn't been great sofar.


Thanks in advance for any light shed on the matter. I'm sure more people are debating a form of this conundrum.

 

Microsofts Activation services phone #?

So I had an old rig that was running a RETAIL version of Win XP Home. Well the thing died. I want to use the product key from that old machine to do a win 7 upgrade, however, I cannot seem to find Microsoft's support number anywhere on their site, instead it redirects me to a page and here's what it says:

Well guess freakin what, THE COMPUTER IS DEAD, THEREFORE I CAN NOT DO ANY OF THOSE DAMN THINGS!!!!!!! *Bang Head :banghead:

This is seriously getting on my nerves!

Even googling it takes me to the same place. Does anyone have the number for their "Activation services" department?

 

Win10 pro activation after building new computer

Hi all

I have purchase win 10 licence very long time ago and lost the email with activation key. Every time I have reinstalled win it activated itself. Few month back I have build new PC (motherboard, video, the lot) and installed win and to my surprise it did
not activated. I was told that I need the old computer and link the activation to my account. I have just done that, managed to link the activation with my account but I still can not activate the win10 on the new build. Troubleshooter tells me that it cant
activate it, I go option "new hardware" but next window only shows me my old desktop and not the new one. In my Microsoft account/devices I can see my old and new desktop. Do I need to remove the old desktop to be able to activate the new one? Thanks for all
you help.