Windows 8.1 to Windows 10: Mistake?
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@JaredBusch That is correct. I think it is stored in your account. I upgraded from 8 to 10, and then wiped, and installed 10 from scratch and it installed without asking me for a key or anything.
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@dafyre said:
@JaredBusch That is correct. I think it is stored in your account. I upgraded from 8 to 10, and then wiped, and installed 10 from scratch and it installed without asking me for a key or anything.
You can give the machine to someone else. They can wipe and reinstall and log in with their account and it will be licensed. The license is tied to the hardware and does not know anything about the account.
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@JaredBusch said:
@gjacobse said:
What would you call the key used from ACER, Dell, HP, etc.
That is the OEM key. My question was are you sure your system was using that key prior to the upgrade?
I have no reason to think that the key would have been changed.
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What version of Windows 10 is on it now? what version of Windows 8.1 was on it before?
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@Dashrender Me? Home Premium and the Win 10 Home Premium edition, I think... I wish they'd take a play out of Apples play book... One Desktop OS without the 10871320487210437 different licensing options.
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@dafyre said:
@Dashrender Me? Home Premium and the Win 10 Home Premium edition, I think... I wish they'd take a play out of Apples play book... One Desktop OS without the 10871320487210437 different licensing options.
I thought there were only three versions of Windows 10. Home, Professional, and Enterprise?
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@coliver said:
@dafyre said:
@Dashrender Me? Home Premium and the Win 10 Home Premium edition, I think... I wish they'd take a play out of Apples play book... One Desktop OS without the 10871320487210437 different licensing options.
I thought there were only three versions of Windows 10. Home, Professional, and Enterprise?
There are 5. Add Education and IoT to your list
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@nadnerB Yepp... and that is 4 too many.
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@nadnerB said:
@coliver said:
@dafyre said:
@Dashrender Me? Home Premium and the Win 10 Home Premium edition, I think... I wish they'd take a play out of Apples play book... One Desktop OS without the 10871320487210437 different licensing options.
I thought there were only three versions of Windows 10. Home, Professional, and Enterprise?
There are 5. Add Education and IoT to your list
I think there are more because of the smaller than 8 inch screen, but there might not be an actual license difference, only a "i know what size screen I'm installed on, so I know I'm free" portion to the code.. not sure.
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@dafyre said:
@nadnerB Yepp... and that is 4 too many.
I think it's 3 to many, perhaps 4 if you include the new free license for devices with screens smaller than 8 inches.
IoT should definitely be it's own license,
Free smaller than 8 inches
everything else.From there it would be nice to see something like a feature pack that businesses buy when they need DA, etc.
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@nadnerB said:
@coliver said:
@dafyre said:
@Dashrender Me? Home Premium and the Win 10 Home Premium edition, I think... I wish they'd take a play out of Apples play book... One Desktop OS without the 10871320487210437 different licensing options.
I thought there were only three versions of Windows 10. Home, Professional, and Enterprise?
There are 5. Add Education and IoT to your list
oops, I left off the Mobile version... if you want to include that (not out of preview yet)
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Trying to go back to 8.1, not being helpful either. the can't validate the files on the USB drive the Recovery Manager created.
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@gjacobse said:
Trying to go back to 8.1, not being helpful either. the can't validate the files on the USB drive the Recovery Manager created.
Bad recovery media then? I generally find a similar machine and create a new media. Probably be hard for your home setup.
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@gjacobse said:
Trying to go back to 8.1, not being helpful either. the can't validate the files on the USB drive the Recovery Manager created.
Hahaha....(not really)
Recovery partition is missing (some how)
The USB recover drive I created - not validso to go back to 8.1 I have to order the media at $45 plus tax (and I'm sure shipping).
Nice.
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I have an acer laptop purchased just before Christmas last year. It was running 8.1 I still have the recovery media for it on a USB drive. want me to image it for you?
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@JaredBusch said:
I have an acer laptop purchased just before Christmas last year. It was running 8.1 I still have the recovery media for it on a USB drive. want me to image it for you?
If you have the time, that would be great.
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This is the model I have.
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Using imageUSB to create the image file.
Looks like 15gb. I'll drop you a line when it is transferable.
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Cool thanks
I have the R14 which was only available via BestBuy...
But it should still work.
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@gjacobse said:
Cool thanks
I have the R14 which was only available via BestBuy...
But it should still work.
This was bought at best buy also, but assuming that Acer is like most companies, the recovery will be similar. Hopefully similar enough.
