Windows 10 Unable to Activate Windows 10 After Clean Install Following Upgrade Issues

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Similac

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• Jul 29, 2015

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Going to attempt installing and skipping the cdkey portion as opposed to entering the key from magical jelly bean (which apparently was a generic key)

 

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Similac

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• Jul 30, 2015

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In case anyone else looks in here I'm not sure what happened, but had to revert back to 7, activate 7, then upgrade to 10, activate 10, then do a clean install without entering any CD Key both times it asked.

 

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kemical

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• Jul 30, 2015

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If you use the Microsoft media tool to upgrade to win 10 then it silently replaces your win 7 key with a new win 10 one. You can then use Jellybean to find out what it is and then do a clean install. You must do that initial upgrade to get the key although it sounds like from what you say you've tried this and it didn't work?
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