My son had a retail Windows 8 PC. He got the free Windows 10 upgrade.
Recently he fried his motherboard. Learned his lesson and now has a decent power board.
He was making monthly images with Macrium Free.
So we can restore his latest backup to the rebuilt PC, and I'm told we will have to argue the activation over the phone with Microsoft.
But the question is, he says the PC was slow and unresponsive and there are old apps lying around he no longer uses and is just generally not happy with the way his Windows 10 install was working.
So he really wants to do a clean fresh install.
Now, please correct me if I'm wrong - You can't do a clean install onto a new PC and expect the activation to follow? M$ Will want him to spend another $249 AUD on a pro license?
So - can he restore his old image onto the rebuilt PC. Argue the "Fried motherboard" case with M$ and once successfully activated, then do a clean install?
thanks
Recently he fried his motherboard. Learned his lesson and now has a decent power board.
He was making monthly images with Macrium Free.
So we can restore his latest backup to the rebuilt PC, and I'm told we will have to argue the activation over the phone with Microsoft.
But the question is, he says the PC was slow and unresponsive and there are old apps lying around he no longer uses and is just generally not happy with the way his Windows 10 install was working.
So he really wants to do a clean fresh install.
Now, please correct me if I'm wrong - You can't do a clean install onto a new PC and expect the activation to follow? M$ Will want him to spend another $249 AUD on a pro license?
So - can he restore his old image onto the rebuilt PC. Argue the "Fried motherboard" case with M$ and once successfully activated, then do a clean install?
thanks