Windows 10: Windows license will expire soon

Thanks Superfly i have no idea why it prompt me after a clean install. I will try to delete the partition and install to unallocated space Windows C drive. Get back as soon as possible.

 

Good morning! Just woke up. *Smile

I will be monitoring your progress the best I can and time gives.

 

Good Morning sliceandice! Everthing is working up to now(fingers crossed). LOL. My only question is what if I Factory reset will I have to go the the process of re installing windows ?

 

No, Windows 10 supports full reset from within C drive. Only thing that will be missing are the HP specific tools. But that is kind of nice, because then you have an absolutely clean slate, without all annoying "crapware".

Recovery options in Windows 10

Update: Those Recovery Partitions are outdated within 6 months anyway because of the rate MS pushes new builds.

 

This is how one of my Asus laptops look like, and it came like this from the factory.

 

Sorry to be discouraging, but if you have made ANY changes to the original partition scheme, almost certainly, the HP Recovery function will no longer work. HP machines are especially sensitive to such changes, and it used to be, as long as you left the Recovery partition alone, they would do the factory reset. But recently, I made changes to the OS partition, then restored it to its original size and state (never touch the Recovery partition), and when I went to do the factory reset, it failed!

 

Very likely the partition ID doesn't match any more. Just a swag.....

 

While Enterprise can normally only be Volume Licence activated, other Editions of Windows 10 can be VL or Retail or OEM licenced. Pro can be VL activated as the OP's is or was. Enterprise, Pro and Education can be VL activated. I think in most cases, unless your the IT guy or in the IT department, you'd likely be given Pro not Enterprise. More often than not there would be group policy restrictions so no point in using Enterprise and then crippling it. *Wink My guess is the Pro license is also probably cheaper.
What can happen is company X goes out of business and the assets are sold off. Those devices are supposed to be wiped of any corporate installs, especially VL installs. But if the guy that normally does this is looking for a new job, it sometimes doesn't get done. I personally wouldn't be in any hurry to do it unless I was going to be paid for the time and trouble. *Wink
Other scenarios are inept tech support that don't have a clue what they're doing. Of straight out fraud by the seller.

 

Yep! I have done a lot of modifications on laptops to partitions and restoring from the recovery partition has always worked after I've restored the original partition scheme.


Either way...OP has full HDD image backup and it can be restored to it's original glory, so there is no danger in experimenting a bit. And as mentioned earlier, that recovery partition is old already so in the end it's pretty much useless.

 

I have 3 HP computers I can put back to Win7 when/if desired simply because I made the factory restore discs before doing the Upgrades to Win10. HP and most OEMs include a program for creating those discs, usually can make the discs only once.

 

Seems I previously linked to the wrong post... this is where I did the VL test Win 10 activation is expiring - volume license Solved - Page 3 - Windows 10 Forums

I am officially now #GettingOld.... LOL

 

I can relate, I turned 60 this year. *Sad