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Upgrading Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro using an OEM DVD

Anonymous
2018-03-23T14:12:30+00:00

Dear Microsoft Community

I recently bought three new laptops which all came preloaded with Windows 10 Home. At the same time I bought three copies of Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit OEM DVD's.

Its apparent that I cant simply enter a new product key as Windows says that its invalid. I have tried doing a new install by booting from the DVD, but this makes no difference; after the whole process the computer still shows me Windows Home as the installed OS??

How do I get this rectified?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Install and upgrade

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-03-23T20:18:35+00:00

    fwiw, when I install windows fresh, I will boot off a usb flash drive/installer and choose the Custom install,, delete windows and all the system partitions - somewhere along the line it presents a list of windows versions, in my case its edu, edu N, enterprise, enterprise n, Pro, Pro n, more... 

    It didn't offer you a choice ?

    you might download the insider iso for Enterprise, 'for use on another computer'  as its installer doesn't even have an option for regular Home.

    Maybe make the installer for pro 'for use on another computer.   Or try the Microsoft Store and search Windows, it will offer Windows pro and use the key there.  Maybe you'll get lucky.   The oem key is for use on a computer that has no embedded key.

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