Windows 10: New laptop now has two W10 Home installations - HELP please

Discus and support New laptop now has two W10 Home installations - HELP please in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; I recently purchased an Acer Aspire 5 Slim (A515-54) It shipped with W10 Home on a 500G NVME SSD. The W10 Home key is apparently set in the BIOS. It... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by teckneeculler, Nov 17, 2020.

  1. TECKNEECULLER
    teckneeculler Win User

    New laptop now has two W10 Home installations - HELP please


    I recently purchased an Acer Aspire 5 Slim (A515-54)
    It shipped with W10 Home on a 500G NVME SSD. The W10 Home key is apparently set in the BIOS.
    It also has a space to hold a second (regular) SSD, and came with a bracket\ribbon for this purpose.
    I installed the second drive, a 250G Apacer, without problems.
    My intention was to install W10 Pro on the second SSD, so I downloaded the ISO from Microsoft and purchased a Pro key.
    However, when I installed the ISO, it seems to be activated as another W10 Home.
    How can I change the second installation to W10 Pro?

    :)
     
    teckneeculler, Nov 17, 2020
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  2. EXODUSPRIME1337
    exodusprime1337 Win User

    windows xp installation and dual core am

    could someone please list the steps they follow to install windows with a dual core processor and windows xp service pack to. I'm reletively new to amd dual core and i feel i'm missing a step. All help will be appreciated. thanx
     
    exodusprime1337, Nov 17, 2020
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  3. 95VIPER
    95Viper Win User
    Installing W10 on this Laptop

    HP Stream 11 under Windows 10 - Touchpad not recognized.

    Are you making sure you are trying the correct driver for the WiFi... They list Broadcom, Intel, and/or Realtek.

    Also, try to run the installer as an administrator install.

    If that fails... try extracting the files and manually install the driver.
     
    95Viper, Nov 17, 2020
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  4. RK3066
    rk3066 Win User

    New laptop now has two W10 Home installations - HELP please

    Installing W10 on this Laptop

    Wifi works but where's the link he mentions in the link above? not seeing it
     
    rk3066, Nov 17, 2020
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