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Activation error and corrupted windows.old
Hello,
I recently did a clean install of windows 10 (over my free upgrade of windows 10 from 8.1). Previous windows 10 version was properly activated and I used it for 6 months.
In this process something went wrong and the installer created two windows.old ( naming windows.old and windows.old.000). Windows.old.000 seems to be corrupted and that version was not activated hence it has the generic key of 8hvx7. Because of this I am getting Key Activation Error 0xC004C003
I found out the original authentic key from windows.old using showkeyplus software.
I want to remove that corrupted windows.old.000 but want to keep windows.old and I would like windows to automatically recognize my authentic key.
Should I just enter my key or should I delete windows.old.000?
Please help. Thanks