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Improve this question. John Lindgren. John Lindgren John Lindgren 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 8 8 bronze badges. Not really. Preventing activation with the preinstalled key is only half the question, that doesn't do me any good unless I can also activate with the "refurb" key.

Naturally you cannot activate Home using a Pro key. Microsoft claims you can upgrade to Pro from a Home installation if you have a key for Pro.

Have you tried it? I mean, that's really all that's left here: you've got the answers you want in the sites you've already linked to in the OP and the comments. All that's left is trying it. Show 2 more comments. Sorted by: Reset to default. Highest score default Date modified newest first Date created oldest first. I'm going to take a stab at this. Next, you will be asked to choose which edition of Windows to install.

Choose 'Professional' edition. If you don't see this, then modify your installation media as posted above. Complete the installation, Windows will automatically activate with it's digital entitlement if this same hardware has previously been activated with Windows 10 Pro. Changing only the hard drive will not impact Windows digital entitlement validity.

Improve this answer. Appleoddity Appleoddity Because Setup retrieves it automatically from the firmware. Are you sure about that? Thanks for your feedback. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community.

Search the community and support articles Windows Windows 10 Search Community member. Is there some way to locate the Product Key Code should it be necessary to reinstall Win 10? This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

On a refurbished PC it's difficult to say if Windows 10 was installed by the original OEM or if it has been upgraded from something else. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. When you upgraded from a previous version of Windows or receive a new computer preinstalled with Windows 10, what happened is the hardware your PC will get a digital entitlement, where a unique signature of the computer will be stored on Microsoft Activation Servers.

The Windows 7 or Windows 8 genuine license you were previously running will be exchanged for a diagnostics key. Anytime you need to reinstall Windows 10 on that machine, just proceed to reinstall Windows