It's free to get 8.1, I just meant you needed to be updated to 8.1 when trying to upgrade to 10. Did you buy a OEM 8 ?.
no it came wioth my pc back in 2012. I had bought 8 pro for an old laptop I never use. I always update to pro from home when ever home is installed. windows 10 did install from 8. I never installed 8.1 on this pc before upgrading its a hassle to get 8.1 installed with all the updates that need to be done before you can get it.
Once more. Zero out your HDD, wipe it, don't use format to clean iit, then clear CMOS, and reset your BIOS and make sure it's updated. Now clean install the preview and use a VL license key and act with KMS. You can just run KMS VL or tool as it will load a key. Next year just before July, do the same and then install your OEM and update to 8.1, then use the genuine ticket trick, clean install 10 pro and do the trick.
I only wat pro dont want to have to install the add feature junk to get pro. I have a pro dvd but it dont ask for product key when I install it.
Your on MDL, all 8.1 msdn multiple editions iso's wil upgrade your 8.0 to 8.1 (your store bought 8.1 dvd would also do that), no hassle to first download all wu updates till it offers 8.1 upgrade thru wu. Maybe it's the language barrier but the story about this upgrade adventure changes sometimes if you ask me. So: You have a brand system (pc/laptop) containing a preinstalled windows 8.0 Home (most systems have Home). You have bought a win 8.1 pro dvd but didn't use it, only for upgrading your 8.0 Home to 8.1 pro? As far as i know 8.0 can't directly be upgraded to 10, you have to go to 8.1 and then you can go to 10. So the bios key (8.0 HOME) is the culprit here, during the upgrade that key will decide which 10 version you get, i think.
You mean the professional way. If your lazy and want to end up wondering why you have problems then yes. Never mind, he has to use the in-place upgrade, so yes your way is better now.
Okay, thanks for clearing that You say, upgrading from 8.0 to 8.1 is a hassle because you need to download/install so much updates before you get the "upgrade to 8.1" offer by windows update. That's not neccessary, you could have downloaded an msdn 8.1 Multiple Editions iso from here and that iso should have upgraded your genuine 8.0 to a genuine 8.1 (still Core/Home but it would). I'm not a programmer as xinso and others here but i think the windowsm key in the bios which is 8.0 Core/Home is your culprit here.
I give up. During the length of this discussion i would already have the 8.0 pro dvd installed and upgraded to 10 (which is not possibe in my opinion but you did it). If you had done what odiebugs said from the beginning: "go back to the windows version you upgraded from, via controlpanel > reset > reset to previous version and then checked what win version you had, then that would have cleared the mistery of getting the wrong version".
not trying to be rude just trying to get my windows 8 pro not windows 8.1 pro key to install on windows 10 10565. I just dont want to screw it up doing it the wrong way.
Who talked about clean install? Launch the setup from the desktop, maybe to be sure uninstall the actual key with slmgr /upk and change the edition in the registry es explained earlier.
I dont understand how to install the generic key to get the pro features for 10565 after 10565 home is installed then use my windows 8 not 8.1 pro key to activate it. thats all I want to know how to do so I dont mess things up.
You wanted to clear your "Getting the wrong version" mistery on a genuine system, that whas answered by odiebugs1 (at least it was a good and logical start). By now you have an insider preview installed (still beta and that one also is Home). To me that's worse then having a genuine 10 Home instead of Pro.