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Bfoster360
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Jun 08, 2022

Windows 11 Pro clean install on a machine with Windows 10 Pro OEM license

Hi,    My company has dozens of Windows 10 Pro machines with Dell OEM OS licenses.  I did a clean install of Windows 11 using the USB media creation tool and it installed Windows 11 HOME!  What is ...
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Bfoster360
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Jun 10, 2022

UPDATE : This machine was from a 3rd party Amazon re-seller and if you look at the Dell service tag on their website, it shows that it shipped with Windows 10 HOME.  Please beware of Amazon 3rd party resellers people!  

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Jun 11, 2022

Hi Bfoster360,
You may add instructions to change the USB to provide the option to choose Pro in the install, you will need to get a valid genuine Windows 10/11 Key.

 

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/installing-windows-10-pro-instead-of-home/fb62c4e8-8829-41ba-817c-aff3cca51b3b

You may find generic keys to get them installed but it won't activate. 

 

https://winaero.com/windows-11-generic-keys-for-all-editions/#:~:text=Generic%20Keys%20for%20Windows%2011%20%20%20,%20%20N2434-X9D7W-8PF6X-8DV9T-8TYMD%20%2011%20more%20rows%20

You may consider buying volume license through vendors or through micorsoft.

Thanks,

Shawn

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