mike has brought this to us :
On 12/22/2015 7:32 AM, Eagle wrote:
TomR formulated the question :
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Eagle typed:
wiped My HD and tried to load W7 ultimate, but the built-in modem will
not load. I then loaded w10 and tried to use My W7 activation to
activate W10, and was refused. W10 works, but get the activation
reminder on the desktop.

Any thoughts on working this issue?

If you have a valid W7 software and license key, I the trick is to
first just put the W7 on. Then do all of the automatic security
updates and within a week or so, you will get a notice that says you
can upgrade to W10.

When you get that W10 upgrade notice, do the W10 upgrade from there.
Do not go online and download a W10 software or upgrade directly since
your W7 license key won't work for that. The built-in valid W7
license key will only work for the W10 upgrade notice that you get
from Microsoft after you have had W7 installed for a while (a week or
so).

With your W7 installed, the problem with the modem is probably a
driver problem. I found a free driver updater software online that
checks for the correct drivers, but the free version only lets you
update up to two drivers per day. I can't remember the name of the
free program right now.

Or, if you know the modem make and model you can probably go to a
support website and download the correct driver.

If you post a reply back here in response to the above, I'll give you
the info for a very good newsgroup for computer questions like the
ones you have. It is a news.annexcafe.com newsgroup called
annexcafe.general.user2user .

Only problem with your solution is that the internal modem won't load,
so it's impossible to do all you wrote Tom. :/

What do you mean by "modem"???
Most things referred to as internal modems would be a dialup modem from last
decade.
Your computer probably won't live live long enough to download windows
10
then the additional stuff it wants at the first update...or the second...or
the third....
You'll certainly be old and grey...

If it's an internal LAN interface and you have high-speed internet,
you need a driver.
Download (on another computer) and install that and you'll be good to go.
The option I use is to buy/beg/borrow/steal a USB or WIFI lan interface
that comes with a driver. Install that and connect to the web via that
interface. Get win10 running, then go in search for the driver for the
onboard
"modem".
Mine was not easy to find, but it was out there.

I tried that and it didn't work. I've been using W10 for well over two
months now and the activate bug is still on My desktop. I am going to
MS and get a key by phone.
Thanks anyway Mike.