thank you so much! that immediately activated, even after a reboot and I was then able to upgrade to windows 10 pro. one quick question: If I ever have to do a reinstall of windows 10 pro, that...

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.

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

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

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...

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I received that screen on another (identical) laptop but I cannot get it to appear on this one. region is en_us and has been since I received it. any other ideas?

when trying to "Go to Store" to upgrade from home to pro, I receive a page that says "We're not sure how you got here, but you can't buy this version of Windows 10." I have already created a new...