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Upgrade from Win11 Home to Win11 Pro with a unused Win8 Pro Key?
Follow up: I tried to change my Win11 Home product key to the (Key removed) Win11 Pro generic product key, expecting that the result would be a unactivated copy of Win11 Pro on which I could try my Win8 Pro keys or even a Win11 Pro key from the MS Store.
However that didn't work, because the upgrade procedure starts and immediately stops and tells me that I don't have a valid key. Same thing happens entering the Win8 Pro key directly (which I sort of expected though). So it looks like the upgrade path on my Win11 Home is blocked , to the point that I can't even use a generic key for whatever legitimate usage are generic keys supposed to be used for. Maybe it's a OEM thing?
andreba57 I dont know what else you try, but if you still have the key , please try to update with the generic key to windows 11 pro, and for it to work you have to be offline, that means before pressing the upgrade button, disconnect from the internet 😉
then when you have a windows 10 / 11 pro version, you change your key to your Pro key! 🙂
hope it helps, and if it did, and you still have the other key lying around, can you send it to my mail 🙂
im in need of one myself 🙂
Thank you! 🙂