Windows 10: Windows 10 education downgrade to Windows10 Pro

So I recently made a clean install from my legitimate copy of windows 8.1 Pro to windows 10 Pro, everything went good and the product was activated as the Pro version, but then one friend came to me with a windows 10 Education key and convinced me to try it, without question I entered the key(stupid I know). The system accepted the key and started the upgrade, after restarting my computer I opened the system settings and noticed that my windows wasn't activated. It turns out that the key that gave me my friend was already used by him and now I have a deactivated version of windows 10. So my question is if I can go back to the previous version of windows 10 Pro I already had, or do I need to do a clean install of windows 10?

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hello sir

hello sir i am using windows 10 education now i want to install windows10 pro.
plz tell me how we uninstall windows10 education and install windows10 pro
i have window10 pro with a bootable pendrive
how we uninstall previous windows

 

Activation Gone Wrong

Are you asking if you have it or don't have it?

Cortana is not in Windows 10 Education, you need to downgrade back to Windows 10 Pro in order to restore Cortana.

 

From an elevated command prompt ("run as administrator" command prompt) type slmgr /upk

Then type slmgr /ato

hopefully that works. UPK uninstalls the current product key. ATO tries online activation.

If you do have to install Windows 10 Pro again, install it like an upgrade over the top of what you have and it will hopefully keep all your data and programs. Do NOT enter any product keys when asked! Just skip those steps.

 

Using the command prompt didn't work, i guess i'll have to install windows again *cry

 

You have the Windows 10 Pro ISO? Just run setup.exe from it while inside Windows, it will do an upgrade in place, not change any of your accounts or settings, and hopefully activate. Do NOT enter any product keys if it asks. Hopefully that will activate.