Nuked and Paved Win10 Insider and now it won't activate

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Bires

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On build 10547 now. I had to reset and even though I'm logged in with the same login I used for Insider Preview, Windows reports unactivated and displays an annoying watermark.

After two hours of searching and trying things, I'm stumped. Any ideas or should I just live with the watermark?
 
insider builds will always have a build watermark and yes you can remove the watermark.
 
Bires said:
Not the build watermark.

"Activate Windows"
"Go to Settings to activate Windows"
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Unless you bought a retail win10 key, you have either go back to win7/8 than use win10 upgrade tool and reactivate with RTM 10240 build. Other options will be using third party piracy app like kms spice.

I never had a problem with clean installed so far with win 10 and different insiders\leak builds regarding activation.
 
Bires said:
On build 10547 now. I had to reset and even though I'm logged in with the same login I used for Insider Preview, Windows reports unactivated and displays an annoying watermark.

After two hours of searching and trying things, I'm stumped. Any ideas or should I just live with the watermark?
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Do you have a key?
 
This is what I found interesting, I did Win 10 upgrade from Win 8.1. Using Aida 64 (most recent) system info it shows the Activation number and then also the Key for Win 10. I did not think that Win 10 upgrade had a key or is it really something else?
 
noko said:
This is what I found interesting, I did Win 10 upgrade from Win 8.1. Using Aida 64 (most recent) system info it shows the Activation number and then also the Key for Win 10. I did not think that Win 10 upgrade had a key or is it really something else?
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It's not a retail key so if you tried to reinstall directly to win10 that key wouldn't work.
 
have you ever had a final version of windows 10 installed and activated?

if you were running a preview before then it won't automatically activate, at least not as far as I know...legit anyways


for me after upgrading to 10 and then doing a clean install, it still took a week to activate with MS for whatever reason, might be worth waiting a few days?
 
Bires said:
What is this?
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key management server. If the key was say like "confiscated" from work and the domain might have its own local kms server (more of a plugin or app sitting on a server) where the workstations authorize themselves too instead of going out to the MS server. If that is the case then it won't work until the old OS is activated properly.
 
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