In the past, all the vendors would give you is a rebuild disk, not the actual Windows Install disk. Pardon on that but by ghetto version of windows, I mean one supplied by a retailer and not microsoft itself. At no point will activation or upgrade accept my 25-character code for the full installation version. I have wiped the SSD from scratch multiple times over the weekend and cannot for anything get PRO to install. Bad enough HP forced me to purchase the home version to put on it at the factory. I am stuck but not about to pay for yet a THIRD windows10 license for this laptop just to get what I want. M$ says I need to pay 99$ for the home->Pro UPGRADE to be able to make my laptop the PRO version, and I can no longer RETURN the 150$ Full Pro license that I bought as it's been opened, but I cannot install that either as HP screwed my laptop up. It claims that the microsoft servers have my laptop saved as a win10Home computer, and that was done by HP, even though I requested that they not put ANY operating system on the machine. Only to find out that windows claims I have home installed on the new SSD for some reason and it WILL NOT ACCEPT MY FULL WIN10PRO LICENSE TO UPGRADE. I install the SSD, and install windows10 via the USB method. I get the laptop, pull out the 1tb HD with the HP ghetto install of win10HOME.
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Soooo, I ordered the SSD and a full version of windows 10 Pro to install onto it concurrently while waiting on the laptop to get delivered.
My intention was always to buy a 2tb Samsung m.2 drive and install that along with windows 10 on that drive, being that HP doesn't offer SSD's or HDs up to that size. I bought a 2in1 laptop and chose the slow platter drive and thus windows10 home as a throwaway because HP doesn't offer the option to have no HD and no operating system for some reason. Of course there is no help chat I can get through or a phone number for help. Ok, I've been round and round with Microsoft and they are saying I need to take this up with HP.