Windows 10: Upgraded manually so not activated.

Hi there, I recently upgraded a friend's computer to Windows 10 however I didn't do it through the normal OS way, and now the windows is not activated. I can't go back to the old OS, however I do have the product key that was on his laptop on the old OS, but this does not work if I put it into Windows 10. Does anyone know what I can do?

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Windows 7 PC can't run Windows 10 due to Air Display HELP

Got mine all setup. Just did a manual install with the ttool and selected upgrade. Windows is still active. No hiccups. So far so good

 

Unable to auto upgrade to Windows 10

I have reserved my free upgrade of windows 10 and then ''Windows is downloading Updates" started which stuck at 20%.

So then I started manual upgrade of windows 10 with Microsoft Multimedia Tool but I am confuse in a thing that shall I need Activation of windows 10 or it will be okay with that of my activated windows 7 ultimate ?

 

What was that "not normal" way ?
Which windows did you upgrade from ?

 

You probably did not upgrade to the same version/edition of Windows 10. A few things will tell you what went wrong.

First, run Showkey Plus from this forum. In the upper right corner is an option to check product key. Enter the old product key there. When you get the results, you can click on the product key to blank it out on the screen, then post the results here.
Showkey - Windows 10 Forums

Second. Run winver (either click start icon and type winver - or win key + r and run winver). Post results here.

Finally, open command prompt (admin) [found on right clicking start icon]. In the command prompt window run:
slmgr /dlv

Post the results here. There is no uniquely identifying information in the results, so you don't need to edit anything.

We should be able to tell you exactly what mistake was made from those results.