Windows 10: windows 7 to windows 10 - installation failure

Hi. Briefly the problem is;


Have a desktop and a laptop - both on Win7 until Jan when I tried to upgrade to Win10. Used the media creation tool on the desktop and all went well - no problems but...


On the laptop it repeatedly would not work. Googled the problem and found that other Medion Akoya P6624 laptops were having this problem - something to do with various drivers. There was a solution quite neat - remove the battery and pull the power cable out when the win10 process went into restart. Apparently the drivers interfere on a restart but not a cold boot. Tried it but Win10 then did not reboot at the first 30% done. I got almost all the way to the finish but then it reported installation failure...boo hoo.


Decided to create the media tool on a flash drive and wipe the laptop hard drive and do a clean install...but think I blew it. Created the tool on the flash drive but did that using the desktop. Then I wiped everything on the laptop boot, recovery, everything and then used the flash drive to install. Great! it worked ….but now it won't activate - at least using my Win7 product key.


Think I should have created the media tool using the laptop as then the process would have taken the product key off the laptop and not the desktop I think that's what happens but what do I do now?


Can I use the product key off the desktop to activate the laptop? If I go into settings and updates and select about changes to hard ware the system tells me what machine it thinks is being used and gives the ID of my desktop.


I could recreate the media tool but select "I do not have a product key" I think I can do that?


I could reinstall Win7 I have the discs, using my existing product key which of course is a bit blurred but which I think I can correctly read and then try to upgrade again - creating the media tool - on the flash drive - using the laptop this time?


Don't think I am doing anything too outrageous here. MS is still allowing us to use the media creation tool as my desktop upgrade proves.


Any help gratefully received, thanks

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