
I went with HWID activation and worked like a charm! Appreciate the follow-up everyone. I knew it wasn't activated at the moment so and had no activation programs (KMS) running in background, I felt confident proceeding with activation. STEP 2 : Install the setup KMSpico-setup.

STEP 1: Unzip the KMSpico.zip archive with WinRAR. Also find in the ReadMe.txt file (Fr/US), the instructions to install KMSPico activator to crack Windows and Office for free for life. How to crack Windows 10 / 8 / 7, Office 2019, 2016, Etc with KMSPico.

Windows must've either been deactivated all along or shortly after (thought it was activated at some point), either way my concern was I might be in this sort of activation limbo having experienced Windows Enterprise LTSB 2016 error stating that it could not verify organization information. The password of kmspico activator is: kms. I'm sorry but to update everyone what I had actually, after investigating through USB I used to load Windows, initially done upon my PC build was on a separate laptop downloaded the file for Windows, used MS Creation Tool, and then burned ISO to USB drive (this method was previously said to be most safe and sort of pure way to extract windows, at the time there was some skepticism with KMS so could not remember if I had used but did not).
