[SOLVED] Bought windows home. Now i have Educational?

[AcyanidePancake]

so i bought windows 10 home a while ago and when i was going through my pc I noticed that it said i had educational edition . i recently did a MOBO change so i understand that i need a new license and all of that. so i bought another windows 10 home edition license but it wont let me change. anyone know how to fix this. im not a student and this is my home computer so its really annoying

 

[Nemesia]

Where did you buy that Windows 10 Home Edition?

 

[AcyanidePancake]

Where did you buy that Windows 10 Home Edition?

i got it from micro-center almost a year and a half ago. but i replaced my mobo about 3 months ago. ive also tried windows media creation tool but it keeps trying to reinstall the last known windows edition on my mobo witch would be educational so its useless

 

[onespeedbiker]

There is no record of a windows version stored on your MB. Make sure the only drives attached to your PC are the install USB and the drive you are installing windows on to. Make sure you follow this link https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq/how-to-do-a-clean-installation-of-windows-10.3170366/

 

[aldan]

you may just have to speak with a real human being at microsoft.chances are you could have gotten the version you had reactivated had you gone this route.

 

[onespeedbiker]

If you are trying to do an upgrade from educational to Home, it will not work, you will have to do a clean install. If the clean install doesn't work, use one of these ways to get to a Windows 10 command prompt and use diskpart to wipe your drive of the installed OS. https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-startup-repair-fix-boot-problems-windows-10