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W7Home to W10Pro with DL, new PC wont activate after clean install
Hey all,
I built this PC for my good friend about 6 years ago, and along the way upgraded the OS to W10 just before the free upgrade expired I think...
He asks me to build another and I do, but when I ask him if he remember what OS he has he didnt seem to remember, nor did I, so I asked him to take a look at start button and from there I asked if the button was round or square....his was a version before it went square so I thought it was W7 lol, so I downloaded Win7 Home as that was the DVD disk I also had, then installed it on new PC, but I had issues with updates and told him I will install Win10Home, so I did. He didnt create a MS account so nothing was sync'd up. I took new PC and set it up, then took his old PC home to back up and see that its WIN10Pro with Digital License, crap!
So I searched here and elsewhere about how to go from 32 bit to 64 bit, clean install only, and Home to Pro, but to also accept the digital license.
I went to his house last night having read other posts and figured I would have him create a MS account to sign in on the old PC and sync up, then I did a clean install with W10Pro x64, using the media creation tool in the 32bit WinPro old PC, set it up on usb drive, went to new PC installed Win10Pro x64, signing in with newly created MS account from old PC, and went thru troubleshooter in activation and it came up with cannot activate windows 10, to try again later or something like that.....
so question now do I need to call MS support or should I wait a few days first and try again.
Sorry for detailed but that's how I write...
Gerry