Hello All, I currently have a copy of windows 8 Pro that was legitimately obtained from MS under the cheap upgrade program at windows 8 launch. I purchased a new laptop recently that came with windows 8 and installed my old hard drives into the new machine as I am not a fan of re installing all my programs etc on a new computer. (Also I have ssd drives that I wanted to use in the new machine.) Unfortunately my windows 8 pro became un-activated because I am not using it on the same machine. Finding no way to legitimately continue using my Windows 8 Pro upgrade on my new laptop I have decided to try to downgrade to Windows 8 core. I have run the program as administrator, selected windows 8 core and hit save. When I go to the registry it shows the correct information in the keys. I mount an ISO of windows 8 core 64bit and run the setup and it tells me that I cannot install windows 8 core 64 bit over Windows 8 Pro 64 bit. Does anybody know why this is? Is it time for me just to bite the bullet and do a fresh install? Thanks!
The laptop is a dell and has a dell windows 8 key in the bios. The hard drive with the dell windows 8 has been completely removed from the machine. The only ISO i could find with windows 8 core anywhere was an 18 in 1 iso with both 64 and 32 bit versions and I am pretty sure it likely has most languages too. Maybe this is the problem? Its nearly impossible to find a normal windows 8 core ISO anywhere. Thanks!
Thanks for your help. I did what you said, got it to start the install, then it rebooted to finish and failed with an error about migration. After that, system rebooted and rolled back install. I guess this is a sign that its time to start fresh.
Just a wild guess... I think the OA 3.0 mechanism is preventing the 'downgrade'. You may try again with a pid.txt placed in the sources folder with the default Core retail key. Anyway, fresh install is always recommended.
It could be interesting to add the ability to convert an Hyper-V Server 2012 to a full Windows Server 2012 Standard (or even Datacenter) (that normally is not permitted) to your utility. Just to let you know, the Reg Keys involved are these: EditionID ServerHyper => ServerStandard Product Name Hyper-V Server 2012 => Windows Server 2012 Standard Thanks, Alessio
I'm doing it right now, if you can wait an hour I'll let you know how it went. Right now is running and it's at 20% of "Getting files ready for installation"...
I upgraded my Windows 7 HP (OEM) to Windows 7 Ultimate (retail) using the Windows Anytime Upgrade feature by plugging in the Win7 Ultimate key that I had from a dead system. Now that I realize that I am unable to use my Win7 HP OEM key anywhere else I would like to downgrade my recently upgraded Win 7 Ultimate back to Win 7 HP (OEM) and use my Win 7 Ultimate key somewhere else. Will this program let me downgrade where I can then just reuse my old OEM key, thus freeing up my retail key?
It won't work for me! This is what I did: Opened program, clicked enterprise and pressed save. I then inserted my USB stick with enterprise in it. I clicked skip updated and continue. Then I clicked upgrade but It said 'Cannot upgrade from enterprise eval' and a lot of other stuff. Why?! I am using Enterprise Evaluation Build 9200!
It won't work for me! This is what I did: Opened program, clicked enterprise and pressed save. I then inserted my USB stick with enterprise in it. I clicked skip updated and continue. Then I clicked upgrade but It said 'Cannot upgrade from enterprise eval' and a lot of other stuff. Why?! I am using Enterprise Evaluation Build 9200! I'm using version 1.5
So, with an OEM install of Windows 8 (non-Pro), I could upgrade it to Windows 8 Pro with this? If not, I do have a spare Windows 8 Pro key I could use, but I'd rather save it for a rainy day instead.
