This been puzzling me for many hours now and I can't find the solution on the net. So maybe someone has an answer?
I have this PC that previously had a Windows 10 Home RETAIL license installed on it. It's a custom-built PC.
I'm now selling this PC to someone, but I'm installing a Windows 10 Pro license on it, as per the buyer's request.
I want to keep my Windows 10 Home license to myself, as it is tied to my Microsoft account.
So I deactivated the key on the PC prior to wiping the drive clean. I also reinstalled my retail Win10 license as a virtual machine on my other PC to have it registered to a different device, and it activated fine, and even in my Microsoft account, I can properly see the virtual machine in my devices. So I thought that it was all fine, and properly deactivated on my old PC.
But whenever I try to activate the Win10 pro on the PC I'm selling (after a clean install), it keeps telling me that it detected a Win10 Home account associated with that PC, and that I should reinstall home and then upgrade to Pro. Problem is, I DON'T WANT to upgrade my own home license to Pro. I'm installing another license for the guy I'm selling my PC to.
Anyone had a similar issue before? How did you solve the problem? Is my home license (RETAIL LICENSE) tied forever to my hardware with no way of installing a different license? How am I supposed to sell that PC if it is forever tied to my own retail copy of Win10?
I have this PC that previously had a Windows 10 Home RETAIL license installed on it. It's a custom-built PC.
I'm now selling this PC to someone, but I'm installing a Windows 10 Pro license on it, as per the buyer's request.
I want to keep my Windows 10 Home license to myself, as it is tied to my Microsoft account.
So I deactivated the key on the PC prior to wiping the drive clean. I also reinstalled my retail Win10 license as a virtual machine on my other PC to have it registered to a different device, and it activated fine, and even in my Microsoft account, I can properly see the virtual machine in my devices. So I thought that it was all fine, and properly deactivated on my old PC.
But whenever I try to activate the Win10 pro on the PC I'm selling (after a clean install), it keeps telling me that it detected a Win10 Home account associated with that PC, and that I should reinstall home and then upgrade to Pro. Problem is, I DON'T WANT to upgrade my own home license to Pro. I'm installing another license for the guy I'm selling my PC to.
Anyone had a similar issue before? How did you solve the problem? Is my home license (RETAIL LICENSE) tied forever to my hardware with no way of installing a different license? How am I supposed to sell that PC if it is forever tied to my own retail copy of Win10?