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CuratrixTechnologies
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Jul 12, 2018

Windows 7 Professional to Windows 10 Upgrade - How?

Can someone please provide details on how to actually carry out the Windows 7 Professional upgrade to Windows 10 Professional as when i run the Upgrade Wizard from the Admin Portal, i get told that t...
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CuratrixTechnologies
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Jul 26, 2018
Thanks Tammy, did you get anywhere with MS Support?

I ended up visiting the user locally and installing as a clean Windows 10 install. It activated upon installation, but required a 4 hour round trip to do...
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Tammy
Iron Contributor
Jul 31, 2018

Hi there...apologies for the delay in posting/replying...been quite busy since returning from a business trip.

 

Okay so yes - MS had me do the following and it worked just fine!  Probably won't need again but was handy for that machine - hopefully will save you from another 4 hour round trip!

  

  • Start upgrade via the website
  • When prompted create installation media and download ISO
  • Extract ISO and copy EI.cfg to the “Sources” folder
  • Start upgrade

This is required as the upgrade can’t read previous product key in the firmware – this is not a problem with a Windows 8 upgrade

 

EI.cfg
[EditionID]
Professional
[Channel]
OEM
[VL]
0

 

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