Windows 10: Can't activate Windows 10 after upgrade from activated 8.1

Discus and support Can't activate Windows 10 after upgrade from activated 8.1 in Windows 10 Updates and Activation to solve the problem; Hello Dan, That's a quote from Microsoft, but you might give it a day or two with keep trying to activate to see if you may get lucky. Discussion in 'Windows 10 Updates and Activation' started by metalknuxx, Jul 28, 2015.

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  1. Brink
    Brink New Member

    Can't activate Windows 10 after upgrade from activated 8.1


    Hello Dan,

    That's a quote from Microsoft, but you might give it a day or two with keep trying to activate to see if you may get lucky.
     
    Brink, Jul 28, 2015
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  2. DGCDAN
    dgcdan Win User

    Will give that a try thanks Brink *Thumbs

    Dan.
     
    dgcdan, Jul 28, 2015
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  3. THEHUTCHUK
    thehutchuk Win User
    Yeh, I had that as the product key already too. I went to "Change Product Key", re-entered the same product key and followed the steps and it activated OK.
     
    thehutchuk, Jul 28, 2015
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  4. BOBSAGETFULLHOU
    bobsagetfullhou Win User

    Can't activate Windows 10 after upgrade from activated 8.1

    Unfortunately didn't work. Guess I'll wait a day or two.
     
    bobsagetfullhou, Jul 28, 2015
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  5. IBAWBAG
    iBawbag Win User
    I have exact same issue on my desktop with legit Windows 8.1 key. Strangely enough just tried my mum's Toshiba laptop, same method (mediacreationtool upgrade) and same result.

    I work for an ISP and this morning we used the exact same method to upgrade 4 Samsung laptops (Win 8.1) and a Windows 7 HP desktop and all activated fine. mmm
     
    iBawbag, Jul 28, 2015
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  6. MRPLT
    mrplt Win User
    This morning everything was working fine, but around 12:00 GMT problems began.
     
    mrplt, Jul 28, 2015
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  7. IBAWBAG
    iBawbag Win User
    Gotta be activation server issue. Also noticed previously that if it wasn't activated some options e.g themes etc were not available to change until activation.
     
    iBawbag, Jul 28, 2015
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  8. ASTROLABOS
    astrolabos Win User

    Can't activate Windows 10 after upgrade from activated 8.1

    I think it's normal. It's the first day of release, so the activation server is propably getting hammered
     
    astrolabos, Jul 28, 2015
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  9. MRPLT
    mrplt Win User
    Exactly. But that's okay as it's the official release day. Anyways, it works now!
     
    mrplt, Jul 28, 2015
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  10. RECONBUNNY
    RECONBunny Win User
    Okay so mine says this:


    Can't activate Windows 10 after upgrade from activated 8.1 [​IMG]


    I also have the same exact product key as you are all stating. But it's telling me it's blocked.

    Error description: The activation server determined the specific product key has been blocked.

    What I did was use "VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T" for the CD key when doing the fresh install of Windows 10 AFTER I already upgraded from 8.1 to 10.

    So will this key get unblocked? Or do I have to Re-install Windows 8.1, Upgrade to 10, fresh install 10 again and THEN SKIP the product key panel?

    EDIT: Tried the CMD activation still failed


    Can't activate Windows 10 after upgrade from activated 8.1 [​IMG]
     
    RECONBunny, Jul 28, 2015
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  11. MRPLT
    mrplt Win User
    You are not able to do a clean install after the upgrade process. You'll have to downgrade to Win8.1
     
    mrplt, Jul 28, 2015
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  12. ASTROLABOS
    astrolabos Win User
    I tried the cmd activation and it says that the activation failed. I upgraded with the upgrade tool from win 8.1 pro to win10 pro.
     
    astrolabos, Jul 28, 2015
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  13. RECONBUNNY
    RECONBunny Win User

    Can't activate Windows 10 after upgrade from activated 8.1

    That's disgusting. I guess that's the damn catch.
     
    RECONBunny, Jul 28, 2015
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  14. MRPLT
    mrplt Win User
    The biggest problem is that, I think, the customer support service. Normally they could easily solve this kind of problems but they are not ready yet. I called them once today and all I got as answer is "These things happen in Windows 10, downgrade to Windows 8 and upgrade again to 10."
    Phone activation isn't working etiher.

    All I can recommend you is to re-install Windows 10 update after downgrading to Windows 8 and wait for a clean install method.
     
    mrplt, Jul 28, 2015
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  15. ASTROLABOS
    astrolabos Win User
    or you can wait for a day or two for the traffic load of the authentication servers to be normalized and try then. Besides, you have a whole month time to go back to windows 8
     
    astrolabos, Jul 28, 2015
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