Windows 10: Activate Windows 10

Ah, ok. It sounds like it auto detected the 8.1 Home key and used that to install 10 Home instead of Pro.

 

Yeah - it was my intention to try that out to see if it would do exactly that.

I had similar problems with 10159 in a different install in a VM though - that wouldn't activate either (and that was Pro). I'm wondering how widespread this is - I didn't get a message about Activation not failing, but only discovered it because I went looking to check the status.

 

I updated from 10130 to 10159 to 10162 but 10162 won't activate. I used Method 1 and entered new Pro key 8N67H-M3CY9-QT7C4-2TR7M-TXYCV and it failed to activate but error code is blank. Previously it had an error code and the installed key was different. I will try again later as it says.





Jim *Nerd

 

I have already done that. What should I do now?

 

Hi,

Even I am getting the same error message.

 

I saw this error code Error code: 0xC004F034

License not found or invalid. What should I do now?

I again re entered the key then the error code was blank

 

Bagavan,

Since you have already changed to the correct product key, see if the command below may activate for you.

slmgr.vbs /ato

 

I get this error message

 

In that case keep trying off and on for the next few days in case it's an issue with Microsoft's activation server.

 

Should I go back to 8.1 and then upgrade to the final version to avoid this activation issue?

 

I'd at least give it a few days to see if it may activate by then.

 

Let us wait then *Smile

 

I get the same error. *Sad It's on a VM (rather than the Windows 8.1 machine I mentioned earlier) and it was installed from one of the earlier ISOs, then I used the 10162 Official ISO and ran setup.exe within Windows.

For my 2 attempts, the common factor is that (because I have a metered connection) I've been downloading the official 10162 ISO and running setup.exe from within an earlier version of Windows (10 or 8.1), rather than running from Windows Update, at which point it seems to 'lose' the activation status and even putting in the new product keys won't fix it.

Could there be a problem with that upgrade route?

 

it is a known issue > http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/i...8f165c1?auth=1

now with up to 14 pages of posts

 

Although most of those 14 pages aren't very useful!

For anyone who like me is curious, the post saying it's a server problem is on Page 6