Windows 10: Trying to transfer license

I bought Windows 8 Home, and got the free upgrade to Windows 10 Home. My old hard drive died while I was transferring it to a new custom build, but that's fine, I had a USB installer I could use.The USB installer, and a fresh windows installer I downloaded today, only installs Windows 10 Pro. I don't even get the option to select anything, it just defaults to Pro. Of course my digital license is for the Home edition, and signing in to try and activate as outlined in the online guides for this, with the "I recently changed hardware" it reports it is unable to activate, "We can't find any dev

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Windows 10 license transfer

Thanks Andre.

i bought the license. My laptop was originally loaded with win 7 and was upgraded free couple of months.

in this case, if i understand you correctly, i can transfer with below steps. Right.?

let me buy my new laptop and try below.

and to my question do you have an update.

does OS upgrades if my activation key is changed.

thanks

sai

 

Windows 10 license transfer

If its a retail license, yes, you can transfer it. Learn more about transferring the license:

• How to Transfer your Windows 10 License to a New Computer

 

transfer digital license

a windows site suggests de-activating a device to transfer the -license' / key - to a new device. Is this true and possible in the case of --transfer digital license-- ???