"Windows cannot find the microsoft license terms. Make sure the installation sources are valid and restart the installation."

[SneakyRed]

Hello. I've desprately been trying to reinstall windows for the past couple of days, and I keep running into issues. I currently have Windows 10 on a flash drive, but once I get to the activate windows part, if I put in my key it says, "we couldn't verify the product key. Please check your installation media.", And if select "I don't have a product key" and any of the operating system versions, it says, "Windows cannot find the microsoft software license terms. Make sure the installation source is valid and restart the installation."

Any help would be absolutely amazing.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Colif]

simple, when you get to screen asking for licence key, click "skip" and win 10 will reactivate itself on install.

Your key isn't needed anymore, you have a digital entitlement to always install win 10 on pc

 

[why_wolf]

when you say you have windows 10 on a flash drive you mean you made an installation media using the media creation tool found here right? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/

 

[Colif]

try making another installer, most of the answers i got for this was bad installation media, might try a different USB.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_install/getting-error-while-running-setup-windows-10/14aa2ab4-cabc-4d59-8bb2-07073be37acb

 

[SneakyRed]

simple, when you get to screen asking for licence key, click "skip" and win 10 will reactivate itself on install.

Your key isn't needed anymore, you have a digital entitlement to always install win 10 on pc

And where would i click skip? There is no option for that that i can see.

 

[SneakyRed]

when you say you have windows 10 on a flash drive you mean you made an installation media using the media creation tool found here right? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/

Yep.

 

[SneakyRed]

try making another installer, most of the answers i got for this was bad installation media, might try a different USB.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_install/getting-error-while-running-setup-windows-10/14aa2ab4-cabc-4d59-8bb2-07073be37acb

At this point I've tried 2 different usbs, and made another installer about 5 times. Still no luck.

 

[SneakyRed]

Turns out that my CPU was dying, and it was corrupting data. After replacing it, everything is working again.