Windows 10: Windows upgraded to Pro from Home after hardware change, now activation doesn't work.

Hi there!

I realize that this has already been solved many times, but for some reason it won't work for me.


So as the title suggests, we upgraded some of our hardware the motherboard among it due to crashing and decided to reinstall our new windows on it we bought a usb a few months back. For some reason, unprompted, windows decided to upgrade itself to pro, and now wouldn't accept our home edition key.

I've tried various solutions after troubleshooting to no avail: including changing EditionID both to home and to core plus the product name and all that jazz in the registry editor.

I can tell that it did something, because now instead of simply asking for activation, it writes: "we can't activate windows on this device as the previous version of windows was not activated prior to updating." I tried to reinstall several times using this process, but every time it goes back to pro.

I can't really install the computer from desktop using the usb, because for some reason the setup from the usb refuses to open it does go through boot though, so I've tried downloading the iso version, but it won't let me pick edition either -- immediately decides it's pro, despite the registry editor fix.



This is really frustrating, especially considering it keeps prompting me to buy a legitimate copy every step of the way. We just bought windows 10 a few months ago; how is it possible that it's so unfriendly to the user? Please help me, I'm already at loss of what to do.

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Activation of Windows 10 Pro doesn´t work

Hallo, i can´t activate my windows 10 Pro (free upgrade from windows 7);

Info: 0xC0EA000A

Manual activation doesn´t work either.

Important (i think): I had to re-install windows 10 (3 or even 4 times). because I had massive problems with "Start and Cortana Issues".

I hope, I don´t have to search the old product key.

PS. Yes, Windows 7 was genuine.

 

Activating Windows 10 Pro After a Hardware Upgrade!

I followed all the steps to linking my Windows 10 Pro to my Microsoft account so that I could upgrade my hardware, reinstall Windows 10 Pro, and activate it, but it's not working. I'm signed into my Microsoft account. I tried the activation troubleshooter,
selecing that I recently changed hardware, etc. Nothing is working. I can see my old computer under my Microsoft account, as well as my new one (with better hardware). I changed the motherboard, ram, and CPU. Any suggestions would be wonderful.

 

Windows doesn`t start. Authomatic repair doesn`t work.

Thanks again!!

I`m sorry I had not noticed that the text on the picture was in spanish. It says that windows has replaced some damaged clusters in "name" file and "directory". Then, at the end "an unspecified error occurred (75736e6a726e6c2e 4f6)".

I`ll do it and I`ll be updating this thread when I have the report.

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I ran SeaTools. These are the results:




Does it mean my HDD is useless?