Ken1943 wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 08:14:59 -0400, "SC Tom" wrote:


". . .winston" wrote in message
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Sandro wrote on 07/29/2015 3:33 AM:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 02:09:14 -0400, ". . .winston"
wrote:

Media Creation Tool (How to)

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...d=ms_wol_win10

Note: Upgrading to Win10 using media must be done from within the
qualifying o/s. A clean install will be seen as requiring a product key.
- upgrading using media from within a qualifying o/s will not require
entry of a product key, nor will a Win10 product key be issued.
actually the page you mention states something different :
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If you upgraded to Windows 10 on this PC by taking advantage of the
free upgrade offer and successfully activated Windows 10 on this PC in
the past, you won't have a Windows 10 product key, and you can skip
the product key page by selecting the Skip button. Your PC will
activate online automatically so long as the same edition of Windows
10 was successfully activated on this PC by using the free Windows 10
upgrade offer.
----------------------------------------------------

To me it means :
once you have activated succesfully your Windows 10 as free upgrade,
you can re-install windows10 from scratch (formatting).
The microsoft activation procedure will recognize (somehow) that your
PC was eligible to have Windows10 , and will activate it again.

That's correct.

And why I first stated - Upgrading to Win10 using media must be done from
within the qualifying o/s.

Strange that the Win10Prox64 ISO (3,333,357,568 bytes) is smaller than the
Win10Homex64 (3,347,578,880 bytes). Somehow, I would have thought it would
be the other way around.

PRO is smarter.


Ken1943

On my copy, 7ZIP won't open the install.wim, and that's what I
count on to look inside a WIM and see what is different. Either
the WIM format is changed, or this is really an ESD file.

Paul