Hi all, as some of you might already know yesterday I had made a post about screwing up my boot loader on Windows 10 because I deleted Ubuntu that resided on my second drive. I'm guessing what had happened was that I got rid of the only boot loader (grub) that was available on my computer. After a nightmare of trying to restore the boot loader I decided to throw in the towel and just start with a clean slate along with some data loss that I failed to back up. The full thread is here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2443328
So now I'm up to this point where I can't even get Windows 10 activated. I'm just so tired of this now and just want to get back into normal computing. From what I understand your able to clean install AFTER an upgrade from Win7 and 8.1, as mentioned in the previous thread that I had made, I upgraded from Win8.1 (before the problem I had, see link above) so I should be eligible for a free clean install right? However when I try and activate Windows 10 it says my product key is blocked. I called up MS and they are saying they can't give me another product key DESPITE me already having a legit PHYSICAL copy of Windows 8 PRO w/ the product in my hands! The Representative then tells me that the activation servers are flooded right now and that could be the reason why my product key is getting blocked. However when I do a google search on blocked keys I don't see mention of flooded servers. I'm guessing the rep just wanted to get rid of me. I'm not sure what to do at this point.
My only assumption that I can give is that since I didn't have another PC at home I had to go over to a friends place and download Windows 10 from there PC so I can install it on my PC. Could that be the reason why my product key isn't working? Any advice is appreciated.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2443328
So now I'm up to this point where I can't even get Windows 10 activated. I'm just so tired of this now and just want to get back into normal computing. From what I understand your able to clean install AFTER an upgrade from Win7 and 8.1, as mentioned in the previous thread that I had made, I upgraded from Win8.1 (before the problem I had, see link above) so I should be eligible for a free clean install right? However when I try and activate Windows 10 it says my product key is blocked. I called up MS and they are saying they can't give me another product key DESPITE me already having a legit PHYSICAL copy of Windows 8 PRO w/ the product in my hands! The Representative then tells me that the activation servers are flooded right now and that could be the reason why my product key is getting blocked. However when I do a google search on blocked keys I don't see mention of flooded servers. I'm guessing the rep just wanted to get rid of me. I'm not sure what to do at this point.
My only assumption that I can give is that since I didn't have another PC at home I had to go over to a friends place and download Windows 10 from there PC so I can install it on my PC. Could that be the reason why my product key isn't working? Any advice is appreciated.