Will my new windows 10 be activated or not?

MayankM

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May 25, 2017
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I purchased a new laptop which came with pre-installed windows 10. If I format my hard drive and perform a clean install of the windows 10 that I got using the media creation tool, would that version of windows be activated or not?
 
Solution
Setup a Microsoft Account and link your current PC to it , then backup whatever you want to save and perform a clean install on your new setup and activate it with your Microsoft account from within windows.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/
Create a USB installer here ^

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ROoOkPWIM"][/video]
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP4sAhmH_Oo"][/video]
Setup a Microsoft Account and link your current PC to it , then backup whatever you want to save and perform a clean install on your new setup and activate it with your Microsoft account from within windows.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/
Create a USB installer here ^

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ROoOkPWIM"][/video]
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP4sAhmH_Oo"][/video]
 
Solution

SSerbana

Commendable
Jan 23, 2017
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Done it on several of my computers: once you have win10 installed and connected to internet, and it shows is activated, that computer configuration is recorded on Microsoft server linked with your win10.
Reinstalling a clean win10, during the process say "I don't have a key"; at the end of instalation, after automatically connecting to the Internet (Microsoft server), your windows will be activated.