Windows 10: Bought HP Envy Win 10 Home, denied to install Win 10 Pro with Volume Licensing Key

Against my better judgment I bought 2 HP Envy desktops with Windows 10 Home thinking it would be easy to format and reinstall Windows 10 Pro on them both. Now after working all afternoon on trying to update the drive it still installs Windows 10 Home using the USB startup drive that has worked on every other computer I've updated recently from Win 7 Pro to Win 10 Pro.


When I enter our Volume Licensing Key into "Enter a product key," I get the error "The product key you entered didn't work. Check the product key and try again, or enter a different one. 0xc004f050


If anybody can please help me with getting Win 10 Pro installed on this new HP Envy, I would sure appreciate it. I'm tired.

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Fresh Install of Win 10 without Serial Key?

Looking to reformat a laptops HDD, and then reinstall Win 10 fresh. The problem is it came pre-installed with Win 8 and I did the free upgrade to Win 10. How exactly would I re-format the HDD, reinstall Win 10 and ensure it reactivates properly? I don't see a Win 8 serial key anywhere in the contents of the box.

 

Win 10 activation is expiring - volume license


I ran the Dell OS recovery tool. It says I can only install Win 7 pro.
I'm guessing this laptop was delivered as a Win 7 Pro, then either it was wiped clean by the guy who sold it and he installed Win 10 with a volume license and activate it with KMS or it was updated at the company that owned it with a volume license and the guy who sold it on ebay bought it after the lease expired.

as I was searching around with some different key tools and I found out this Win 10 installation was activated almost exactly 1 year ago. So sounds like some kine of corporate license that has to be re-activated each year.

to the last post-- I can't re-install Win-10 because I don't have it. I bought this laptop used and it was already installed. I didn't get any backup disks with it.
Why would it work with the Win7 key after a clean install if it will not active with the win7 key now?

 

windows 10 key

Thanks but I don't want to do any decrypting. I want to download a Win 10 ISO from Microsoft and install it using my Win 8 key. No other steps required. Is that possible?