Upgrade 8.1 Pro system to 10 Pro that shipped with 10 Home

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GTwannabe

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I have an HP Envy x360 that is driving me nuts. System shipped with Windows 10 Home. I wiped the drive and installed and activated Windows 8.1 Pro with my volume license key.

I am unable to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro. The Windows Upgrade Assistant failed with an unknown error. I tried upgrading via Windows 10 media on a USB drive. This worked, but it saw the embedded 10 Home key in the BIOS and insisted on installing Windows 10 Home.

Any suggestions?
 
Disable the embedded key and enter your own or just leave it blank? Picture below is from a Folio 1020, I know my Zbook and old Elitebook have the exact same BIOS layout. Setting is under advanced > boot options.

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1madman1 said:
Disable the embedded key and enter your own or just leave it blank? Picture below is from a Folio 1020, I know my Zbook and old Elitebook have the exact same BIOS layout. Setting is under advanced > boot options.

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That's for disabling/tinkering with Secure Boot. He's talking about the Windows key that OEMs have embedded in the BIOS since Win8.

OP, what happens if you try to change the key from within the Settings app? I'm not entirely sure if it's even possible when there is a key that's embedded, though. (For instance, I know that if you load an image that came from another PC with the same hardware, Windows will pull the key from the target machine's BIOS and use that in place of the one that came from the source machine-- the one that was stored in the image.)
 
Okay, unattended setup with pid.txt holding the desired product key? - If that still works anyway. Last I tried, the Windows 10 installer will directly accept a Windows 7/8 key without upgrading.
 
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