Well damn
"Yoo this is some fast **** but **** you microsoft"
it;s because of how it does the exact opposite of what it should do.
It started by by just getting windows 10 activated, it simple doesn;t work unless you actually upgrade. The problem is that microsoft claims that the activation changed to help with clean install. They say that yes, you don;t have keys, so the way it activates is it checks your hardware and on their server, it says that this hardware can use Windows so don;t bother him.
I had the same virtualisation programs using the same drivers using the same motherboard and cpu.
And it broke by chnaging the drive where it was installed.....soemthing that can happen if you get an ssd and you want to clone the OS on it, I did it once for my linux mint, it was just working after.
I actually did managed to broke the boot, but I also managed to fix it. What this means is there was no reasons for windows to say it';s not activated, I tried everything, doesn;t work.
You can;t take the media, format the drive and install it despite the fact that I did the upgrade twice......
You can use the reset pc options, but this shoudl be done after it;s activated because otherwise......it won;t magically activate.
So, the entire proceess to get windows 10 cleaned and activated on a vm is:
- get windows 7 iso, they actually removed the ftp download so I had to use a torrent.
- Start the vm with the iso, install windows 7 normally.
- Activate it by giving your key, if it doesn;t work, use the phone system which is basically call a number, enter around 50 numbers so you can enter 50 numbers, it shoudl actiavte.
- Proceed to not get that the instalation iso of wuindows 10 can upgrade and waste hours getting windows 7 updated to get that it tells that the display driver is not compatible while it freaking is, failign to get the compatibility report running again I freakign tried everything before using the iso, this is btw the upgrade procedure most users have to deal with whcih already makes it super bad.
- After windows is upgraded, reset 10 by removing everything, it would activate.
All this for a "I am a genuine user of windows 10".
yikes, I can tell you, it shoudl NEVER be THIS hard to do this. Seriously, I cannot believe how much trouble it was to do something that I think completely made sense......
think of what you want, but god this system is stupid. If I have the same hardware, let me freaking use windows......