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pabloh11
Sep 15, 2025Copper Contributor
Windows Pro, BIOS, licensing
I have a business PC that's on Windows 10 Pro. We are putting a new NVMe drive into it and want to put Win 11 Pro onto it. No matter what we do Win 11 won't give the choice to put Pro onto it then ac...
pabloh11
Sep 24, 2025Copper Contributor
The answer to this was to install Windows 10 Pro fresh then upgrade to Windows 11 Pro. However, the Windows 10 install USB had to be edited to include the ei.cfg file in the sources directory. This forced Win 10 to show options and ignore the key that was stuck in the BIOS and allowed us to re-install our Pro key. Then the upgrade to Win 11 was executed.