Windows 10 Home To Pro Upgrade Failed

The key is fine it s an msdn retail key and it is checked as the first step of the change product key process shevek aug 4 15 at 9 26.

Windows 10 home to pro upgrade failed. I have upgraded a windows 10 home pc to windows 10 pro using the store but it costs 99 00. The windows store app will open to a special upgrade to windows 10 pro screen. We couldn t complete the upgrade undoing changes there is not anti virus at all on the pc. For more info see free up drive space in windows 10.

The entry under productname was changed from windows 10 home to windows 10 pro. I downloaded the iso windows 10 pro file and performed an upgrade of my 8 1 pro to windows 10 pro. Windows 10 home to pro upgrade fails i recently updated to windows 10 home from 8 1 with no problems. Have a year plus old dell xps 27 all in one.

A couple of weeks later i formatted my hard drives and did a clean install of. Use the troubleshooter for windows 10 to fix windows update errors. To upgrade from windows 10 home to windows 10 pro and activate your device you ll need a valid product key or a digital license for windows 10 pro. Then i bought from the microsoft store an upgrade to pro.

Following installation a reboot and then reactivation of windows start settings update and security activation. This could also be the case if you took advantage of the free windows 10 upgrade offer on a pc running a home edition of windows 7 or windows 8 x. Check third party drivers and download any. The upgrade installs reboots and when it come back i ve got this message.

Went to store and bought the upgrade. Shipped with windows 10 home. After the many frustrations with windows updates causing hours of lost time broken system i decided to upgrade to windows 10 pro. In either case the upgrade takes just a few minutes.

For more info about how to keep your pc updated see windows update. Run windows update a few times. I bought a new laptop running windows 10 home and removed all the softwares that came with it. It appears that some features that were supported in 8 1 home are not in 10 home specifically rdp access via whs 2011 so i now need to change it to pro.

Before upgrading to windows 10 pro make sure your device is up to date and running the most recent version of windows 10 home. Then a full download and re install of windows 10 was next step keeping files and applications as is. It s quite empty. I then purchased the upgrade from home to pro for windows 10 but every time i try to install it it says it failed with no details on why.