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Permanently activated my a_ _ , clean install shows something else.
I followed the initial Windows Update Win 10 directions to upgrade for free from Win 7 sp1 and had Win 10 activated successfully and even the command prompt code said i was permanently activated.
To my surprise when i did a clean install from a downloaded ISO directly from Microsoft i can't activate now , Win 10 installed fine , not all that different then when i did clean installs with Win 7 .
Problem is the computer won't activate , even did a second clean install and the same thing . This is my only computer , never owned anything else so it's certainly not a "installed on another machine issue" and it is definitely the same version of Windows.
I did do a refresh after i was having issues with the first upgrade but it was already activated , that refresh went haywire and Win 10 started with a never ending loop saying that no boot device was found .
Have no idea how that happened but it did , well i had to use a Win 7 recovery disk to find a way to boot the machine , i then used a Win 7 image to get back so i can upgrade to Win 10 again .
After trying for days to get a good ISO burned i finally did and after installing through the ISO no activation is possible anymore.