pjp wrote:
In article ,
says...
Is it possible to upgrade from a licensed version of Panasonic
(FZ-G1ASBJKBA) FZ-G1 ToughPad Core i5 (3437U)
OEM Windows 8.1 Pro?

Think you'ld find all goes well. Has for two pc's did the "free" upgrade
well after advertised end of offer here. On a pc I changed from 32bit
Win7 to 63bit Win10 I had to enter a key for a Win7 64 bit os is only
issue I've had. Keep same bit size and I doubt you'll have any problems
at all other than hardware and drivers related.

You can select "I don't have a key" at install time,
then rely on the OS to "sniff" the MSDM BIOS table
which contains the Win8 OEM key.

Machines like that, no longer need a COA (as the key is
stored in the BIOS), and if you installed Win8 media
(same level as originally shipped, like Pro), then the OS
is supposed to see the license key immediately. The same
could happen with Windows 10, as it would be looking for
MSDM (for a Win10 key) and see the Win8 key sitting there.

You can dump the MSDM table in Linux, if you're bored.
There's an ACPIDUMP.

And I see here, that there is an ACPIDUMP.exe for
Windows users. I could run this on Win7, which is
what is running on the Test Machine right now.

https://acpica.org/downloads/binary-tools

https://acpica.org/sites/acpica/file...n-20191018.zip

In an administrator command prompt, you could then try:

acpidump -s # show table names

acpidump.exe -n msdm # mine doesn't have this table but
# the Win8 tablet will have it

and see what happens. You shouldn't ever need to type that
key, but if you want it (on an OEM machine HP/Dell/Acer/Lenovo)
then it should be loaded. If you assemble your own computer
and put an Asus motherboard in it, then there should not be
an MSDM.

Paul