Windows 10: Win 8.1 -> 10 asks for the product key and can't skip

Hi guys,
original win 8 updated to 8.1
what to do?
the key from win 8 doesn't work
tried install from the booting usb, but also can't skip
tried istalling from the media creation tool, went to 100% and nothing happened. did it 3 times.




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How to recover old productkey of windows 10?

You can't use the Windows 8 key for that. I wasn't really sure if you can see your Windows 10 key with that one. But what I would suggest is to do a clean install of Win 10 and skip the product key when asked. It should pull in your product key from Microsoft
registration system online.

 

How to recover old productkey of windows 10?

Oke, but how i do clean install of Win 10?

 

what version of windows 10 did you download ??

 

If your not running Windows 8.1 Pro, you need 10 Home, not 10 Pro. 8.1 Core gets you 10 Home, 8.1 Pro gets you 10 Pro. "N" means no Media Player? You know that right?

 

That's the problem. You need Windows 10 pro for 64 bit without the N. The N means without media player for other countries it isn't licensed in.

 

Enter winver from a elevated command prompt.
Post resulting output here.





This is fromn a Win 7 system but output will be similar.

 

Also, are you upgrading from the Windows update version or the .iso? You have to install the free upgrade from Update before doing a clean install with the .iso. If you don't you need to purchase a product key.

 

Just for future reference, winver doesn't need an elevated command prompt. It can even be run just by typing it into search.

 

Ok, So I am downloading now the win10 x64 pro, without 'N'




So the thing is I had windows 7 installed and I didn't do clean install, I have upgraded. Then it was all fine, windows 10 was working it was activated.
Then I decided to do a clean install because I wanted to have faster pc (it was one year after I bought it and had no reinstalls)
I waited a day, just to be sure that when I install win10 again it will be in my bios and will know the product key.
After a clean install it didn't want to activate windows10 for 2 days so I decided to install win7 again and then upgrade it to win10.
Didn't work, wanted a key. So I installed win8, upgraded it to win8.1 and now I am trying to install on it win10.
I am so stupid, I should have stayed with win10 when I had it.

 

Windows 10 will not write any product key to your BIOS nor will it read Windows 7/8/8.1 keys from bios.

 

Ditto, to the "Windows 10 will not write any product key to your BIOS nor will it read Windows 7/8/8.1 keys from bios." Have a look at this, Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windows 10

Also, for future reference, you don't have to install 8.0 and upgrade to 8.1 anymore. This install media , http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...-refresh-media will let you install and activate with a Windows 8.0 key, even OEM embedded keys. Accepts Windows 8.1 keys too.

 

Okey, it was the version of windows I wanted to install.
I downloaded and installed Win10 pro x64, but this time without the 'N' and it went smoothly. No problems from there. No asking for a key, no bluescreens *Smile

 

Good job, pays to be persistent.