Replied on January 22, 2021. Report abuse. The free upgrade was to be used with an installed and activated Retail or OEM 7, 8 or 8.1 Key and it resulted in you receiving a digital entitlement for 10 based on your present hardware configuration. You don't have that. " Activation in Windows 10" (Digital entitlement) According to Microsoft, I need the Windows-8 key in order for Windows 10 to be activated. To retrieve the Windows-8 key, I used this command. wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey. in "powershell (Admin)", (so at a command prompt). It returned with "OA3xOriginalProductKey". and that's it. Click the install Windows 8 button to begin downloading Windows 8 installation media. Run the downloaded tool and enter your product key. After the download begins, close the setup tool. Next, visit the Upgrade Windows with only a product key page. Click the Install Windows 8.1 button and run the downloaded tool. The product key for Windows was previously attached as a label on the computer. This key could be referenced for activation if the operating system must be reinstalled. For Windows 11 and Windows 10, the product key is "injected" onto the computer motherboard at the factory. Installation and activation of Windows see the information in the BIOS Yes and No After some research and testing on both asus and samsung laptop, i think i have found a simple solution. First you have to have to modify the ei.cfg file in install media. 1. Enable OEM install, you should be able to pick both 8.x and 8.x Pro. First of all you will need install media. copy and paste. After installing Windows 10 from the genuine Windows 7/8.1, then follow the blow steps to reset Windows 10. Open start menu, type Setting in the search bar and click on Settings. Click on Update and security. Click on Recovery. Clio on Get started under Reset. Windows 10 keys will continue to work on Windows 11. When Windows 10 first launched back in 2015, Microsoft also made the OS a free upgrade for all Windows 7 and Windows 8 users who did so within First, press the Windows key, search for "cmd", and click on "Run as administrator": Then, run the following command: wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey. After that, you'll see your Windows 10 product key: Alternatively, you can run this command in the Command Prompt terminal: powershell " (Get-WmiObject -query Click Command Prompt (admin) In Windows 10: Press Windows key + X. Click Windows PowerShell (admin) Enter the following command: wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey. Hit Enter. The product key will be revealed, copy the product key then enter it. Press Windows key + R. The copy of Windows 10 you download and upgrade from will correspond with the edition of Windows you have installed, if it does not, this is why you might be experiencing problems activating: Windows 7 Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Windows 8.0 Core, Windows 8.1 Core will install Windows 10 Home ; Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate uM37Ct.