Windows 10: I had Windows 10 Pro, but the Media Creation Tool Installer will only give me Home.

My installation was wrecked and unable to find my recovery partition. So I created a Windows 10 installation drive, to see if that would repair it. Since it wouldn't repair, I was for forced to reinstall. The install did not let me chose a version, instead simply said "Windows 10" After the install, I found that it was Home Edition. I tried to put in the Activation Key, but it tells me it's invalid. There's no troubleshooter there for it. I tried editing the ei.cfg, but there was no success. This is an old machine it originally had 7 on it.

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Windows 10 Media Creation Tool


I got bored waiting for my 10 Pro upgrade message so I am using the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to play around with installing Windows 10 Pro.

I chose the Upgrade Now option instead of creating media.

(step 3) https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...tallation.html

There were lots of different windows up till now.
So I started screenshots now.
Screenshot-





It offers this now-





This seems to imply that installed programs will be lost-





Clicked Next--Got this-





Got this-Clicked Confirm-





Got this-





If I lose installed programs I will use my Macrium image to revert to 8.1 Pro.
Be back after installing 10 or reverting.

 

Media Creation Tool for Windows 10 PRO

Where can I find a Media Creation Tool that will create Windows 10 Pro media?

The current media creation tool available here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

creates a Windows 10 Home install on my laptop.

The only reason I can think of for this behavior is that there is a Windows 8.1 Home SLIC entry in the BIOS, and it is assuming that "Home" is therefore the correct version to install. However I was running Windows 8.1 Pro (purchased separately from the
laptop) and successfully did an in-place upgrade to Windows 10 Pro before running into software problems caused by the in-place upgrade.

Bottom line - where can I find Windows 10 Pro installation media? The in-place install doesn't work for me and the current Media Creation Tool creates media that incorrectly installs Windows 10 Home.

 

Media Creation Tool for Windows 10 PRO

Use only this link to
Media Creation Tool to download and install it now, take the requested screenshots again.

When did you originally Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro? Did you confirm it was Activated and that the Activation read for Pro.