Windows 10: Retail Win10

My free upgrade will not work no matter what I try. It always gives me the same message. "........cannot be installed on USB flash drive." Of course, I do not have a drive attached to USB. So, I don't know what is generating this error. If I bite-the-bullet and buy a retail version do you think I will have the same problem?

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After upgrade, will license still be retail or not ?

Original title: If users upgrade from win 8.1 retail to win10 free upgrade, will the license still be retail or not ?

If users upgrade from win7/8.1 retail to win10 free upgrade, will the license still be retail or not ? can it be transferrable still and how wi if users upgrade from win7/8.1 retail to win10 free upgrade, will the license still be retail or not ? can it
be transferrable still and how will that work? i only want to know this, and a lot of other people would like to knowll that work?

 

Activation error code 0xC004C003

1. Where or from whom did you purchase the "retail key?"

2. What, if any, Windows version was installed on the computer before you installed Win10?

3. Is the "retail key" for Win10 Home, Win10 Pro, or...?

 

It appears the drive you are trying to update - is flagged as a removable drive..

purchasing a retail version will not help your issue, as the software is the same, so you are just basically purchasing a new product key

please open command prompt (admin)
type> diskpart
type> list disk
type> select disk 0
type> detail disk

post a pic of command window

 

Perhaps posting a snapshot of disk management would help..??

 

Hope this helps.............

 

your running the setup.exe from within the current OS environment?

Also is this upgrade attempt via windows update or via ISO creation / download ?

download and create windows 10 setup media> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/softw...load/windows10

 

I have done all three..........as well as windows update history has numerous failures.
....setup from MCT
.....Setup from mounted iso
.....booting from said iso

 

Are those GPT or legacy partitions? What version are you trying to install, 64 bit or 32 bit? I think Windows 10 64 bit only works with a GPT partition table, at least on the system disk. If your problems persist I recommend erasing all partitions on the system disk in order to start from scratch.

 

Don't erase all partitions, you need to do an upgrade to qualify for the free Windows 10.

 

Wouldn't the product key suffice ?

 

No, you have to upgrade an existing qualifying OS, no exceptions. That means you have to start the upgrade from a booted OS. That means running setup.exe from a mounted ISO, inserted flash drive or DVD.

Many have tried, none have succeeded.

 

Thanks

 

Most new computers come with bloatware. Make sure to shutoff and uninstall any running programs including security tools as they are known to cause issues.

 

That's true. But If Windows 10 keeps refusing the system disk/ partition the only way for the op would be to erase all partitions, create a proper GPT partition table on the system disk and reinstall the current Windows version again. Than it should be possible to go through the update process. To me it really sounds like there is something wrong with the partition table of the disk onto which the op wants to install Windows 10. But that's only a so called "educated guess". It's really difficult to tell without access to the op's computer.