And must have a little knowledge to reinstall the OS and have the correct disks.
Talking of which, I bought a cheapo second hand laptop off ebay. Hardware is great, but the Windows 10 activation isn't working. Seller is dealing with it but its peaked my curiosity....
The sticker on the PC says Windows 8 pro (no COA). The lappy has Win 10 pro. I'm wondering if he just lobbed Win10 on as a clean install
Is there any way to tell if the bios (windows 8 ) key has been genuinely blocked, or whether its just not possible to go from 8->10 as a clean install using this particular key - only via "upgrade" (think the free upgrade has finished now anyway right)?
To be honest an unlicensed Win 10 isn't too bad at nagging/restricting anyway.