Windows 10 asking for activation after attempt to update from 1804

Welcome to TenForums @KrispyKris,

Never post your full retail key on the internet, should someone find and use it before you do, then you will loose any chance of using it yourself If you must post a document contains a key (because the rest of the info is relevant) then replace the first groups with the '*' character, like this: *****-*****-*****-*****-YY49G.

Once upon a time I was an MCSE+Internet+Exchange...back in the days of NT4 and ending with Server 2000. This Windows 10...well, out of my skill set it seems.

That takes me back, MCP in Exchange Server and NT4 Server here. W10 is really not that different under the bonnet, it's recognisably a linear development from the first Windows NT 3.1.

Superfly said:

Your problem is that the licencing service is not running

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Service Available: false

Try repairing system files sfc /scanow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

NOTE: Remove the key from your post - it's not needed for troubleshooting

Edit: I see @Brink beat you to it... LOL

Did that...it has been a long, miserable day...I will try it again...and the Key is the Generic one I think I saw in one of your posts sometime today...a bit wobbly...midnight here, and also getting the flu...

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KrispyKris said:

Did that...it has been a long, miserable day...I will try it again...and the Key is the Generic one I think I saw in one of your posts sometime today...a bit wobbly...midnight here, and also getting the flu...

Oops...the command line thing you posted seems to have the wrong context...Oh, and thanks for your help!

KrispyKris said:

Did that...it has been a long, miserable day...I will try it again...and the Key is the Generic one I think I saw in one of your posts sometime today...a bit wobbly...midnight here, and also getting the flu...

The installed key is the generic one, but your retail key was a valid one. You should be able to activate by changing the installed key to your retail one. You could try your W7 Ultimate CoA key first, if that works then you have a spare retail key for use elsewhere.


Change Product Key in Windows 10

Superfly said:

If the repair does not succeed online, it's most likely permissions corruption of the licencing files which must be reapaired on the offline image - i.e from Recovery/WinPE boot.

Could you give me a bit more info on how to do this? I have the iso on disk, but tried the repair, and it did not work...I need to hit the sack...almost 01.00 here...and I feel like I am getting the flu...thanks again. Jonathan.

KrispyKris said:

Could you give me a bit more info on how to do this? I have the iso on disk, but tried the repair, and it did not work...I need to hit the sack...almost 01.00 here...and I feel like I am getting the flu...thanks again. Jonathan.

Well, I got a bit of sleep. I noticed the fault I made last night when running sfc /scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth. I copied and pasted, and did not notice that "scannow" was missing an N, as well as thre were two operations in one...BTW, I did most of this yesterday since I read all your posts under the Error 0xC0000022...

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Superfly said:

For recovery Select Settings->Update & Security->Restart now (under Advanced Startup) or boot the ISO and select repair in the bottom left corner (more likely to work).

Select the troubleshoot option to get to command prompt (you want to be at X:\Windows\system32).

Then get the offline image drive letter with diskpart and run the offline sfc and dism commands on that image.

In the eg. below I'm running from the online image C: but targeting the offline image D:

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Windows PowerShell
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PS C:\Windows\system32> diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.18362.1

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: DESKTOP-AMD-RYZ

DISKPART> list vol

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 0                      NTFS   Partition    499 MB  Healthy
  Volume 1     D   Windows1909  NTFS   Partition    237 GB  Healthy
  Volume 2                      FAT32  Partition    100 MB  Healthy    System
  Volume 3     F   My Stuff     NTFS   Partition    120 GB  Healthy
  Volume 4     G   OSDisk       NTFS   Partition    111 GB  Healthy
  Volume 5                      NTFS   Partition    835 MB  Healthy
  Volume 6     C   Windows1903  NTFS   Partition    465 GB  Healthy    Boot

DISKPART> exit

Leaving DiskPart...

PS C:\Windows\system32> sfc /SCANNOW /OFFBOOTDIR=c:\ /OFFWINDIR=d:\windows

Beginning system scan.  This process will take some time.


Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.
PS C:\Windows\system32> DISM.exe /Image:d: /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.18362.1

Image Version: 10.0.18363.387

[==========================100.0%==========================] The restore operation completed successfully.
The operation completed successfully.
PS C:\Windows\system32>

I tried just about everything you have suggested including the stuff in the Post...Windows Pro in my .iso image is esd5...still did not wcrk though

Can't activate Windows 10