from the microsoft help page
From that it makes it sound more like its just a case of linking your account and reactivating.
So I guess I'm going back to windows 10 then because I'm not giving them £120 for tricking me out of a license.
No I didn't do a clean windows 10 install first, I installed all the new hardware and then my windows 10 that was on the drive already wouldn't boot. I didn't see much point in spending all day troubleshooting boot issues for an os I would immediately replace so I just deleted the partitions and...
So I was on windows 10 and I tried to get the free update to windows 11 but I couldn't proceed as my processor was not supported.
So now I have a new processor, ram and motherboard and I installed a clean windows 11 but now it's not registered as activated.
I've linked my Microsoft account to...