Windows license will expire soon

To add, the Volume reference could be the same as the Enterprise version, usually intended for companies that purchase a large number of licenses. Companies/Enterprises were allowed to assign such computers to employees for use off-premises.

slicendice said:

Yeah, that is not right!

It's Professional and Volume setup.

You have to download official Windows Home ISO using Media Creation Tool, then install over C drive using that.

If you have a full Macrium backup of your drive including all partitions, then wipe everything when asked where to install.

Your Drive should look like this:
Attachment 183633

Yep, this is correct.

DARKO21 said:

Hey thanks for the help guys. This is my current setup. I would like to have still have the recovery from HP if possible just in case I would like to reset it.

Please give more detail of exactly how you are going about things.

Windows never prompts for activation on a clean install.. that is just weird.

You need to delete the partition you have highlighted above and install to unallocated (as in Slice's pic) - the recovery partition won't be affected.

NB if you are having problems with USB booting you can mount the ISO inside your current installation, and run setup from Sources folder - that will have the same effect as booting from USB, i.e clean install option, and you have a Windows.old folder as well.

Good morning! Just woke up. :)

I will be monitoring your progress the best I can and time gives.

DARKO21 said:

Good Morning sliceandice! Everthing is working up to now(fingers crossed). LOL. My only question is what if I Factory reset will I have to go the the process of re installing windows ?

No, Windows 10 supports full reset from within C drive. Only thing that will be missing are the HP specific tools. But that is kind of nice, because then you have an absolutely clean slate, without all annoying "crapware".

Recovery options in Windows 10

Update: Those Recovery Partitions are outdated within 6 months anyway because of the rate MS pushes new builds.

This is how one of my Asus laptops look like, and it came like this from the factory.

Mark Phelps said:

Sorry to be discouraging, but if you have made ANY changes to the original partition scheme, almost certainly, the HP Recovery function will no longer work. HP machines are especially sensitive to such changes, and it used to be, as long as you left the Recovery partition alone, they would do the factory reset. But recently, I made changes to the OS partition, then restored it to its original size and state (never touch the Recovery partition), and when I went to do the factory reset, it failed!

Very likely the partition ID doesn't match any more. Just a swag.....