Upgrade from Windows 10 Home to Pro using this product key

[steven36]

8 hours ago, vibranium said:

 

That's very interesting.

 

Is your Windows 10 activated from pre-loaded Windows 8? If it is, then Microsoft will check against the Win8 key that is stored on your motherboard

I find this more interesting  lol

 

 

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I got a new motherboard, and CPU, nothing else...I had the same C drive with the same data on it that I had when I initially activated Windows 10. It immediately prompted me to buy a new license. I went to chat to try to get an answer and got a snotty CSR who said that I was using a 'blocked' copy of windows 7 and that it was currently being used on another PC. I have no idea what she was talking about, I used it for years and never had a problem, even when I had to reactivated it when I put it on a different PC.  I ended up paying for a license for $119 which burned me because I could have bought a copy of 10 at Fry's for $89 but I didn't want to reinstall it and I had no idea if I could use that key on the iteration of 10 that is on my computer and could not get an answer from the CSR who repeatedly stated that I could have avoided this if I had purchased a legitimate copy of 7.  

 

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I had a genuine version of Win 8.1 on my computer then upgraded it to Win 10 through the automatic free upgrade and everything worked fine.

However yesterday I had to replace the motherboard with exactly the same model due to a memory slot problem and now I'm getting the message that I need to activate Win 10.

Some months back I had to do a repair on 8.1, and while it said I wouldn't lose any data, what it didn't tell me was that I'd lose most of the programs I had installed and would have to reinstall them with no way to retrieve the supposed "saved" data for those programs. I lost everything, including me email address book that had to be rebuilt from scratch.

I'm being told here that I'll have to go back to a complete reinstall of 8.1, meaning I'll lose everything again, and then do a reinstall of 10 to get it to work properly.

Where do I find the files that Microsoft downloaded during the install of 10 to do a reinstall anyway??

This is looking seriously like I'm in deep trouble here and will have to shell out for a copy of 10!!

 

 

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I'm also looking at the same issues. 

 

It cost me several hundred dollars in tech fees to finally have the motherboard diagnosed as the issue when initially software was blamed for PC performance issues. 

 

I too was advised by Microsoft to roll back to Win 8 and rebuild back to Win 10 but this requires a large investment in time (and some risk if I choose to do this myself). 

 

What surprises me is that the Microsoft chat line people could confirm that originating Win 8 product keys (that I had) were available to use - but they can't offer a Win 10 key in return to avoid an otherwise totally non necessary roll back.

 

As much as I dislike it, I think that the cheapest way ultimately is buying Win10 Pro.

 

 

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Recently I've done HDD to SSD hardware upgrade on 2 Windows 10 PCs and have some troubles with one. Bouth PC were already upgraded on HDDs from Windows 8.1 to 10.
Clean install on first PC was simple: boot from Windows 10 USB and click "skip"/"later" whenever the key is asked. No activation problems happened.
But on the second one I've flashed modded BIOS before clean install and got activation error: something like "This key is blocked..."
Thanks God I had 8.1 USB boot flash! So I installed 8.1, then free upgraded it to 10 and finally made clean Windows 10 installation! Success!

I think that to make clean Windows 8.1 install and upgrade it to Windows 10 is working solution for those who got Windows 10 activation block on clean install

 

Good Luck Everybody! 

 

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_upgrade/will-upgrading-motherboard-after-upgrading-to/a26e93c4-6886-4b44-99cf-7bf49ccba6ee?page=1

 

Last computer I had bought new with windows 8  ,  I upgraded  it  to windows 10 the HHD  was fine on it when I had windows 8.1 on it after a few months it killed my HHD with windows 10 . I replaced HHD  and put Linux Mint  on it . So I'm never going to upgrade another computer with  windows 10  . I would buy  a new one with windows 10  before i do it again . It seems to be a conman problem  like losing activation when changing hardware  is  from what i read on it.

 

If you're lucky enough that windows 10 don't mess up you're PC  from BSOD  ,INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE error  then a  corrupted  HHD  once July 2016 comes if you ever need to do a major upgrade  you may as well add Windows 10 into the price of it  unless you plain to pirate it.

 

Its more trouble than its worth trying  to upgrade  it on PC its not made for  and they never give a real key for it , so you really never own it . Its like a extended trial version tell you have problems.  

[Holmes]

WIndows ten didnt kill the hard drive a operating system cant kill a hard drive it just went out your blaming windows ten for a fault in the hardware you bought (I dont want to argue with you Im simply saying your hard drive went out because of a hardware fault if you got a inaccessable boot device your hard drivvve didnt crash hardware wise it the software just got corrupted on the operating system).  I recommend using the key here to upgrade to windows ten and then using a pro or enterprise key from here to get windows ten pirated they want to invade our privacy we are going to invade there profits for windows you have to fight fire with fire.

[steven36]

18 minutes ago, Holmes said:

WIndows ten didnt kill the hard drive a operating system cant kill a hard drive it just went out your blaming windows ten for a fault in the hardware you bought.  I recommend using the key here to upgrade to windows ten and then using a pro or enterprise key from here to get windows ten pirated they want to invade our privacy we are going to invade there profits for windows you have to fight fire with fire.

I was not talking to you as always !!! And my pc was fine tell  I put in windows 10  and it started to  BSOD  and messed up my block .. I got INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE error I got it working again a few times  and it just stooped working altogther . If I replace the HHD and stick Windows 10 again chances are it will BSOD and mess up another HHD . That's not a chance Im willing to take over Windows 10 . So I turned it in to Linux Box and bought a new Windows 8.1 PC .  If and O/S  has BSOD problems it can  too mess up you're HHD.  The AMD drivers  Microsoft gave me were wrong and the last catalyst for windows 10 would not install at all. so I was stuck using beta drivers from right before windows 10 came out.  This  was a a machine that came with Windows 8.

[Holmes]

A operating system cant kkill a hard drivve listen.  Windows ten didnt brick your hard drive something else did maybe the hardware was weak in that drive.  Remember what I posted about freedom of speech.  This forum is open anyone can post there isnt a rule saying I can reply to one of your posts.  I honestly dont want to talk to you unless its necessary and right now it is (I wish it wasnt I have a really horrible headache like I said windows ten didnt brick your drive.  I had a hard drive start clicking on me one time and guess what it stopped I continued to use it and it never made a clicking sound again (i could be lucky im not Im not that lucky).  I have had many Blue Screen of Deaths and not one has contributed to killing a hard drive friends and customers of mine had blue screen of deaths to there hard drives didnt brick maybe you have negativve luck.

[steven36]

9 minutes ago, Holmes said:

A operating system cant kkill a hard drivve listen.  Windows ten didnt brick your hard drive something else did maybe the hardware was weak in that drive.  Remember what I posted about freedom of speech.  This forum is open anyone can post there isnt a rule saying I can reply to one of your posts.  I honestly dont want to talk to you unless its necessary and right now it is like I said windows ten didnt brick your drive.  I had a hard drive start clicking on me once and guess what it stopped I continued to use it and it never made a clicking sound again (i could be lucky im not Im not that lucky).

Im just going by what i read after I had trouble is all  that many more had the same issues  as me . I have another HHD  I'm on that PC now with Linux Mint 17.3 and it works fine .  I always heard if i make a mistake once shame on them.  if I do it 2 times shame on me , Doing the same thing over and over and expecting to get different  results is the definition of insanity . If I don't install windows 10  it don't drive me insane problem solved .

[vibranium]

Actually, I did see PLENTY of bugs in Windows 10, but killing a HD is not one of them (unless you were using Bitlocker and upgraded to 10586).

[Holmes]

Its fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me and I have started learning linux and am going to use ubuntu or linux mint if I use linux anyway there is no way you can predict the outcome of if you try windows ten again you dont have esp your not a clairvvoyant if you were you would have everything set and you would never run into problems.  If your luckk is sh*tty however its best if you stay away from windows ten windows ten doesnt like you who knows.

[steven36]

2 minutes ago, vibranium said:

Actually, I did see PLENTY of bugs in Windows 10, but killing a HD is not one of them (unless you were using Bitlocker and upgraded to 10586).

Google INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE error Windows 10 .  I fixed it 3 or 4 times  and  it always came back . Its a black screen of death in my case it kept getting worse so i just culled windows 10.

[vibranium]

2 minutes ago, steven36 said:

Google INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE error Windows 10 .  I fixed it 3 or 4 times  and  it always came back . Its a black screen of death in my case it kept getting worse so i just culled windows 10.

 

Ah, you are talking about this bug (which Microsoft has not explained AFAIK). The "fix" is to install from scratch and hope for the best!

 

So I stand corrected. I thought you were saying that Windows 10 caused the HD to fail. My apologies.

[Holmes]

You could have got a bootkit or need to use checkdisk use seatools from seagate I use that to check my hard drive health it checks all hard drives not just seagate.  It has S.M.A.R.T status to thats like hardware heuristics.  If there is nothing on the drive you want to keep format and reinstall or low level format use checkdisk as many times as necessary to make sure there is nothing preventing windows from installing.

[steven36]

15 minutes ago, Holmes said:

You could have got a bootkit or need to use checkdisk use seatools from seagate I use that to check my hard drive health it checks all hard drives not just seagate.  It has S.M.A.R.T status to thats like hardware heuristics.  If there is nothing on the drive you want to keep format and reinstall or low level format use checkdisk as many times as necessary to make sure there is nothing preventing windows from installing.

I already tired everything checkdisk , seatools  , etc  I even reformatted it clean  nothing helped  so I took the HHD out and replaced it  with another one  and  never bothered to put windows 10 on it .  I have 2 other pcs with windows on it so why do I need windows 10 too? If I wanted it I  could upgrade my new pc with it  but i don't

 

My new pc suppose to be compatible with windows 10. It said  when I bought  windows 8.1 with free windows 10 upgrade . I bought  it because it was cheaper  than buying a new windows 10 . I will wait and see  how windows 10 does then buy a  new one if it succeeds .

[Holmes]

You dont need windows ten I recommend everyone use the latest drivers firmware operating system however with the privacy issues and windows update problems its better to standby for redstone.

[steven36]

15 minutes ago, Holmes said:

You dont need windows ten I recommend everyone use the latest drivers firmware operating system however with the privacy issues and windows update problems its better to standby for redstone.

What i was reading about Continuum on windows  10  you better off buying 8.1 or win 7 now or Mac  and  wait tell next year or latter  to buy it because its going to depend  on new hardware . so im holding off altogether.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3017197/microsoft-windows/why-im-holding-off-on-windows-10.html

[Holmes]

I have a windows computer custom built with a video card that can handle directx twelve and I could buy a facial recognition camera however in that article from infoworld the facial recognition feature doesnt work yet.  I tried windows ten pro in VMware windows technical preview and didnt have a chance to use directx twelve thats because I was using drivers provided by VMware and VMware doesnt talk directly to your hardware.  In that article it says windows ten offers great gaming performance and I am excited about gaming on windows ten I am going to standby for redstone that article recommends to to.

[steven36]

7 hours ago, Holmes said:

I have a windows computer custom built with a video card that can handle directx twelve and I could buy a facial recognition camera however in that article from infoworld the facial recognition feature doesnt work yet.  I tried windows ten pro in VMware windows technical preview and didnt have a chance to use directx twelve thats because I was using drivers provided by VMware and VMware doesnt talk directly to your hardware.  In that article it says windows ten offers great gaming performance and I am excited about gaming on windows ten I am going to standby for redstone that article recommends to to.

That's the only thing i been hearing from the majority Windows 10 users is  its a better gaming  computer and its not windows 8  . If it was  not for these 2 things it would not have no incentive at all . And people on windows 7 don't have the windows 8 problem  witch windows 8 is really not a problem at all its due to there lack of common sense on how to install a 3rd party start menu

Just because you upgraded you're pc to work with DX 12  don't mean the masses will . Most everyone  is stuck in a what i already have is good enough attitude and updating to free windows 10 want even save the pc industry only people buying new machines could achieve this.  The way the marketshare looks  the majority don't even care  about these 2 things . I know I don't .  Microsoft's goal  of 1 billoin PCs by  2 or 3 years will never happen .

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To reach the goal in two years, Microsoft would have to push 1.369 million copies of Windows 10 on devices worldwide, and for the three year goal, it would still be 1.005 million copies each day.

 

Even if they did  magically  achieve this  . The numbers  have been rigged  from the start there comparing  a free product to older versions  of windows that people paid for .And still there haveing a hard time giving it away  for free .  At this  point if they did get a billion users it would because of forced upgrades therefore  there still trying to rig the numbers  not because the masses want if they did they would install it.

 

So they have damaged there repetition to no end   to the point that if they did get 1 billion in 2 or 3 years they cheated ..

[Holmes]

I didnt upgrade my computer to work with directx twelve it just happens to work with directx twelve you would be surprised how many gamers there are out there that want windows ten they are standing by and hoping these issues get fixed.  If they fix these privacy issues and windows update issues the do have a chance at getting one billion a better chance at the rate there going there going to be lucky to hit that number.

[steven36]

5 minutes ago, Holmes said:

I didnt upgrade my computer to work with directx twelve it just happens to work with directx twelve you would be surprised how many gamers there are out there that want windows ten they are standing by and hoping these issues get fixed.  If they fix these privacy issues and windows update issues the do have a chance at getting one billion a better chance at the rate there going there going to be lucky to hit that number.

You think this can repair  the damage they done ?  I still  don't   think would get them there 1 billoin users . Something  as simple as removing  a start menu doomed Windows 8.1 . even if they did change  there ways witch  don't look to be happening  in the foreseeable future .  you cant gain peoples trust back that easy . Rome was not built in one day it would take years to rebuild the trust people lost.  And O/S needs to have 4 things  to succeed privacy , security and most of all  stability  and useability . And if they done this or done that does  not count  when there doing the exact opposite.

[Holmes]

Windows ten for some people not all computers are created equal computer systems most importantly custom built ones are all different there are bugs and errors in windows ten feedback where only a thousand users are experiencing it and how many users are there total over a million.  As a matter of fact there are windows updates that have bsod some computers where some are fine not having any problems at all it all comes down to the user and how the user put it together and installed the software and drivers on it. If I installed windows ten I could see my computer having stability and usability(usability is given to the most experienced users if your experienced its going to be easier for you to use the computer).  Same for security with the software and hardware I use and how the software and hardware I use is configured and setup I got better security then some users and experienced users have a better way of applying the right settings for best privacy.The start menu damaged windows eight point one and users including you are using it and you can thank (like you said) third party software for that.  I dont know how many users of windows custom build there computer Im one that does and my mom is not computer literate she has custom built computer my old one.  I dont know if they can repair the damage that is done I do know that anything is possible not as much for windows as it is for linux as windows is not open source you get my point.

[mikie]

They track my laptop motherboard serial number which shows in the bios along with the model # of my laptop - in my   account.microsoft.com

 

 

[Ranma12]

not really cool

[megan]

On 12/28/2015 at 11:18 PM, mikie said:

They track my laptop motherboard serial number which shows in the bios along with the model # of my laptop - in my   account.microsoft.com

 

 

that sux 4 sure.