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This morning my Windows 8 Home -> Pro upgrade activated Windows 10 Pro update OK.
I upgraded from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 Pro with no problem through Microsoft's reserve program. I decided I wanted to do a clean install and went through the steps outlined on Lifehacker which was basically upgrade first, download the image from Microsoft onto a USB flash disk, boot from that and go through the process like any other OS install. During the install process I was asked several times to input a product key. I tried my Windows 7 Ultimate product key but that didn’t work. I tried the product key that was showing after I upgraded to Windows 10 Pro (started 00, so pretty odd) but that didn't work either.
After the install finished, it first said I wasn't activated and the product key area was blank. It also said I was now running Windows 10 Home instead of Windows 10 Pro. I did some standard Windows Updates and installed some other drivers which led to a few restarts. I just noticed now that I am activated, I have a key BUT it's still saying I'm a Windows 10 Home user instead of on Windows 10 Pro and I have no idea why.
*EDIT* Actually it doesn't say that I'm activated. It just instructs me to connect to the internet to activate Windows (I'm online) and as mentioned before, now I have an actual product key as opposed to nothing.
I don't know why someone deleted my script. I am sure that anybody who used it can prove that it's working just fine. And plus you can see what's inside my executable file so you can check if it's not something bad. So I am providing link once again and if it's removed again than I don't know why...
- Run as administrator.
Hi there,
I had exactly the same error.
It simply produces an error because the license servers are overloaded.
Yesterday it didn't succeed, but today it succeeded.
So, just have a few days patience :)