Heck even if their detected digital license did not cover ANY of the editions, that could still be stated. For nice experience, perhaps highlight which of the available editions are covered under their detected digital license. If the Edition is not configured in the image, the installer should present the user with an edition selection.
That will work (prevents installer from "seeing" the OEM license in ACPI).but it is a hack working around a broken installer. Microsoft support actually recommended in this case that I disable UEFI/GPT and go back to Legacy BIOS/MBR. This creates a problem due to the installer assuming the ACPI/bios embedded license/edition is the one that should be installed (instead of giving the user a choice). I can confirm the EI.cfg method is still working as of today (Dec 7, 2020) with both the Media Creation Tool (MCT) and ISO media.īoth ISO and MCT are now multi-edition and you can't download an edition-specific installer.
Is it possible to have the Windows 10 installer ignore any serial keys preinstalled in the BIOS/UEFI? If so, how? If not, is using Legacy mode really the only way around this? I am able to get Windows 10 Professional to install if I disable UEFI & use Legacy instead, but I feel that this is stepping around the issue rather than resolving it. If I try to install using the AIO image from within Windows, the installer does not present me with a list of options for the edition I want to install instead, it assumes that I want to install Home Edition: However it's still installing Windows 10 Home. I then downloaded an All-In-One ISO image of Windows 10 from MSDN (of which I have limited access to), transferred the installer onto a USB stick, & reinstalled (a clean install again). I'm guessing this is due to the Windows 8 Standard Edition serial key preinstalled in the BIOS. I bought Windows 10 Professional & completed a fresh-install (complete reinstallation) of Windows, only that it installed Windows 10 Home instead of Professional. When the laptop still had its hard drive, I upgraded it to Professional so I could use the resources provided by the domain on my homeserver because of this, I can only use the Professional editions of Windows (Home can't join domains). My laptop (a Lenovo Flex 2 15) came preinstalled with Windows 8 Standard (with the serial key preinstalled into the BIOS), and I've since installed an SSD (a Samsung Evo 840 120GB) & upgraded to Windows 10.
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