Setting up Windows failed at setting up Microsoft account.

[Microsoft Windows]

I reset windows on a Dell laptop so I could give it away. After hours of watching it work, I arrived at setting up a Microsoft account. It asked for either a phone number or an email address. I tried two phone numbers and three email addresses. The phone numbers were rejected because they "didn't look quite right" I tried several different configurations of each number. Each of the email addresses got a response that they were already used in a Microsoft account. This includes one address that I have never used for a Microsoft account. The setup will not progress past that point, and w

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