Windows 10 home to pro upgrade, error 0x8000FFFF

sousapro · 06 Nov 2015

NavyLCDR said:

From a command prompt run "slmgr /dlv" without the quotes. Please post the results here. We'll see if you have a good license for Windows 10.

Windows 10 home to pro upgrade, error 0x8000FFFF-captureslmgr.png

Superfly · 06 Nov 2015

sousapro said:

That's interesting. You are activated with a Win8 OEM Core key (according to your Extended PID anyway)

I assume this only applies to OEM keys. I just activated 10586 with a Win7 Retail key and it shows the Win10 retail PID.
No trace of my Win 7 key.

NavyLCDR · 06 Nov 2015

Superfly said:

That's interesting. You are activated with a Win8 OEM Core key (according to your Extended PID anyway)

I assume this only applies to OEM keys. I just activated 10586 with a Win7 Retail key and it shows the Win10 retail PID.
No trace of my Win 7 key.

And the product key -3667T appears to be coming from Windows 8, not Windows 10:
Blocked Product Key for Windows 8 Pro - Microsoft Community

That's why the OP can't upgrade from this Home to Pro - the license appears to be invalid. How would you suggest the OP proceed, @Superfly?

Superfly · 06 Nov 2015

NavyLCDR said:

And the product key -3667T appears to be coming from Windows 8, not Windows 10:
Blocked Product Key for Windows 8 Pro - Microsoft Community

That's why the OP can't upgrade from this Home to Pro - the license appears to be invalid. How would you suggest the OP proceed, @Superfly?

Well, the thing is, it shows as licenced anyway - that's what's confusing me (and the upgrade assistant, I suspect)
The basic info points to a Win8 activation (albeit it obviously is Win10)

I think the OP needs to get digital entitlement via a GT.xml in order to get the upgrade - or purchase a Pro key.

sousapro · 06 Nov 2015

Superfly said:

I think the OP needs to get digital entitlement via a GT.xml in order to get the upgrade - or purchase a Pro key.

how do I get that digital entitlement?, also keep in mind that I had been able to upgrade from windows 8.1 home to pro on an identical laptop to this one and this one was also giving a very similar error when trying to upgrade on windows 8.1.

edit: I can also roll back to the factory image on the laptop and we can try to tackle this one windows 8.1 if you think it will work better

Superfly · 06 Nov 2015

sousapro said:

how do I get that digital entitlement?

See Clean Install Windows 10 Directly without having to Upgrade First - Windows 10 Forums

You can get the ticket from your current install ( if it's properly activated... it reads the OEM key and HardwareID) then clean install Win10 Home with it following the instructions.

PS: If that ticket does not work, then you will need to install Win 8.1 Core first to get one.

sousapro · 06 Nov 2015

okay, working on that now. will keep everyone in the loop.

sousapro · 06 Nov 2015

okay, just restored my genuineticket and it's still giving me that error. back to 8.1 oem?

Superfly · 06 Nov 2015

sousapro said:

okay, just restored my genuineticket and it's still giving me that error. back to 8.1 oem?

I figured what the problem is... the licencing files support Win8.0 OEM keys and thus activates with that - strangely enough no Win 8.0 retail or any type of Win 8.1 keys are included.

To bypass Win 10 using the OEM key on clean install, you have to include a pid.txt file in the sources folder of the install media.

To do this save the following in notepad as pid.txt:
[PID]
Value=TX9XD-98N7V-6WMQ6-BX7FG-H8Q99

PS: Its way past my bed-time - so gonna leave you in the capable hands of the installation experts. Good luck.

sousapro · 06 Nov 2015

Superfly said:

I figured what the problem is... the licencing files support Win8.0 OEM keys and thus activates with that - strangely enough no Win 8.0 retail or any type of Win 8.1 keys are included.

To bypass Win 10 using the OEM key on clean install, you have to include a pid.txt file in the sources folder of the install media.

To do this save the following in notepad as pid.txt:
[PID]
Value=TX9XD-98N7V-6WMQ6-BX7FG-H8Q99

PS: Its way past my bed-time - so gonna leave you in the capable hands of the installation experts. Good luck.

after following all of these instructions and rebooting 4x on a fresh install of windows 10, i'm getting connect to the internet to activate windows, Error code: 0xC004F074.