New 1Tb M.2 SSD drive ordered for my Acer laptop.

[dave.king1]

Hmmm...it's possible that, when the power supply went crazy, some important system files may have gotten corrupted, I think I've had that happen to me at least once, Darwin's power distribution systems used to suffer from power outages a few years ago, sometimes a power surge, or spike, can be enough to cause corrupted files.

Don't know how it happened because I have filtered power for my desktop and disconnect all my computer stuff during electrical storms.

By that as it may what got me was the unwillingness of MS to assist with the reinstall of a legitimate Win 10 installation, install wasn't the problem it was the licence, wanted me to go and buy another Win 10 Pro licence

[DrNomis_44]

Don't know how it happened because I have filtered power for my desktop and disconnect all my computer stuff during electrical storms.

By that as it may what got me was the unwillingness of MS to assist with the reinstall of a legitimate Win 10 installation, install wasn't the problem it was the licence, wanted me to go and buy another Win 10 Pro licence

If the previous installation was a genuine legitimate Windows 10 installation, and properly activated, then Microsoft should have just gone ahead and let you activate it without asking you to pay for a new license, so far, I haven't had to buy a new license....touchwood, something definitely went wrong with there with that previous install of Windows 10 Pro, I wonder if other Windows 10 Pro owners have had the same issue?