First up thanks for the support guys, I’m glad to see I’m not the only one to have navigated these struggles!
Okay, I used a recovery image to go back to a (hp bloatware loaded) windows 7 install that was already activated. I upgraded this to a win10 install using the tool, which is this time active. Hurrah!
The computer is now added to my microsoft account as an activated install. I’m very happy with this as the assistant on the phone told me i would need proof of purchase from 9 years ago or buy a new key.
To get rid of the bloatware would I now be able to format the partition and reinstall win10 and the machine would now be recognised as the same machine for activation purposes?
I really don’t be needing wildfire games or magic desktop! It will be a shame to lose movie maker though!
As it stands the computer is just running on a HDD, no SSD being tortured yet. Could switching to a SDD mess up my activation? Are there steps to take against that happening?
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