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    Reformatted my laptop and now its on windows 8 instead of 10?

    Help lol.

    I was on windows 10, I guess via upgrade, and when I did a reset today and even chose to be on windows 10 after 4 fucking hours my computer boots into windows 8 what do I doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo?

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    oh my god do I just need the media creation tool I'm at work and panicked and am retarded cause the USB it's on is at home FML.

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    Creation tool is most likely needed. Unsure if you'll be able to activate the previous key? There are, well, other methods if need be.

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    Yeah I'm thinking that the 8/10 key is permanent and retained so mct should be all I need. Just sucks I went the long way about this and am basically installing windows twice now.

    Last I heard the disability method was gone? Haven't tried to student it before either. Fuck it, new laptop? Lol.

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    There is a new "das loader" for 10. I've used it a few times without issue.

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    Media creation tool worked fine it was just forever since I basically formatted twice and installed windows twice and lost an entire day lol.

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    10 should be forever per motherboard. That's just weird it reverted on you like that. Glad you're back in business.

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    It was so stupid. It even asked me during the reset if I wanted to reset to 10.

    Man, even 10 minutes of win 8 just to download and install the tool was terrible. Never taking my USB boot of 10 out of my laptop bag again.

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    AFAIK the normal "use Win7/8 key to install Win10" method still works even though the "upgrade period" ended months ago. Microsoft wants ppl to use/upgrade to Win10, why should they stop them from doing so?
    And even if that should have failed, through the upgrade your laptop got a digital entitlement license that is bound to the hardware. So as long as it's the same laptop you can re-install Win10 as often as you like and the license will stay.

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