Don't sweat it.Ah!!!!!! The light shines on the grey, empty expanse of despair
The Laptop was a Home install, not Pro. You nailed it @Bree, gracias.
I'm going to do a Home install on a VM just to verify I see the same things I saw on the Laptop.
My apologies to you again Shawn, two screw-ups in 6 days in the same thread. Is that a new record? Do I get a medal?
I need to clean install Home 20H2 in a VM as well to test and update the tutorial with.
Correct, @truelies. Anytime during this 10 seconds the thumb drive (USB) can be removed, else it may reboot to the thumb if the BIOS order is set as USB device 1st priority. With a DVD, it would not matter as much since the "Press any key to boot from DVD" message would time-out and proceed if left unattended.
I had never done a clean install before and was very hesitant to try. I found this thread, followed the tutorial and everything went smoothly. I just wanted to say thank you to Brink and anyone else that contributed their time and expertise-it is very much appreciated!
Quick question,
When I bought the laptop I had windows 7 installed so I have the key for Windows 7 home premium. Then I upgraded my laptop to Windows 10 Pro. So how do I go about this?
What is "this"?
A clean install?
Refer to first post in this thread---making a USB flash drive installer for Windows 10 via Microsoft Media Creation Tool.
Create Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows 10
If your current Windows 10 Pro install is activated, that info should be already stored on Microsoft's activation servers and you shouldn't have to worry about it. I'd expect any new Win 10 Pro clean install you did would activate without issue.
If you upgraded W7 Home Premium to Windows 10 on this PC it would have got a digital license for Windows 10 Home stored on Microsoft's activation servers. This means you could clean install Windows 10 Home without providing a key and it will activate automatically from the digital license as soon as it can contact the activation servers.
You could clean install W10 Pro, but it won't activate if the PC's digital license is only for Home.
Unless you have previously installed W10 Pro and activated it on this PC, then if you want to activate Pro, or to upgrade an activated Home to Pro, you'll need to purchase a key for Pro.
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