Raw formatted my external

darkf0xx said:

they dont if you did a hdd wipe, I had to do that because gnome completely erased windows 10

Something's wrong, then. It's all over the Internet. I searched "Windows 10 clean install after free upgrade" and found quite a few, from Neowin to Cnet, etc.

darkf0xx said:

they dont if you did a hdd wipe, I had to do that because gnome completely erased windows 10

Replacing or wiping a HDD should not affect the activation. Only when you replace the MB. Sometimes it takes a while to re-activate so you just have to wait.

darkf0xx said:

the microsoft tech guy told me I had to reinstall.

In my experience, Microsoft guys aren't always right. :) However you did it, I'm guessing you got it activated? And that's the cat's meow.

Final diagnosis of my Lexar Jump Drive is that it's dead.

I had five gurus all together on Skype trying to help me get it going again, but it was pronounced dead. No biggie though, because it was only an 8 GB one.

What was accomplished was that another person's 64 GB Flash Drive was revived. :) For once, it's good to say, "Better him than me." :)

darkf0xx said:

well, at least you figured it out.

Yeah, I did. :)