Windows 10: Windows 10 Home license gone missing on HP laptop after resetting the laptop.

Windows 10 Home license gone missing on my HP laptop 18 months old after resetting the laptop due to some AV errors that locked to laptop. The Microsoft product key tool found the license code but was not accepted by the activation server. What to do? How to activate the HP laptop now? I don't want to pay for another Win10 Home license from Microsoft Store cost me 150 US or more? Any help is appreciated.

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Resetting my HP laptop

Since it is a new HP laptop and you want to reset it, instead of using the Windows 10 Reset, why not use the HP Factory Restore application, it should be located on your Start Menu - the alphabetical list - scroll down to the HP suite of apps and look
for recovery . . .

 

How to reset BIOS F.60 on HP Laptop 15-bs111ur?

A couple of months ago I updated BIOS of my HP Laptop 15-bs111ur on F.60. I am sure that I downloaded F.60 from the official website. Around the same time, after BIOS upgrading I started to hear loud fan noise. I performed many steps to fix it:

1. Updated all drivers;
   
2. Reinstalled Windows 10 Home Edition;
   
3. Used all tests from HP Support Assistant;
   
4. Thermal paste was replaced;
   
5. The fan was replaced (yes, I even installed a new fan for CPU).
   

Nothing helped.

Recently, I noticed, that F.60 version was gone from the list of versions supported for my bs-111ur. And now, obviously, I am pretty sure BIOS should be reset. I tried to reset BIOS with the following ways:

• Reset a laptop with a removable battery;
  
• Win+B+Power button: HP BIOS Update screen does not display;
  
• Reset the CMOS using Win+V+Power button: reset was successfully executed.
  However, BIOS is still F.60 version, and I am still can not reset it via "Win+B+Power button".
  
• Recover the BIOS using a USB recovery drive: HP BIOS Update does
  not display.
  

How I can reset BIOS? Or maybe there is some way to downgrade F.60 on F.52?

 

Reset Windows 10 prior to selling laptop

Since I saw this late, you have probably already sold this -- but you need to know that a factory reset does NOT wipe the drive; all it does is reformat it. That means any personal/sensitive data you had on it is still there! Any decent data recovery program will be able to recover most of not all of that.

There is a tutorial on the HP Support Forums about the steps needed to wipe and restore the PC so that your personal data is really gone.