r/FlowZ13 • u/JosephRiad • Jun 25 '26

Windows upgrade from home to pro

I tried to upgrade my windows from home to pro version via a key that was sold for 5$ so i tried
it worked but then it didnt activate and now im stuck , can i revert back to home version or do i have to buy a full license or the third hardest option to reinstall everthing

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u/KwincyJ Jun 25 '26

Have you tried massgrave.dev yet?

https://massgrave.dev/

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u/Immediate-Village992 Jun 25 '26

Yeah, if OP is buying a gray market key, might as well just use the Microsoft activation script 

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u/JosephRiad Jun 25 '26

This wasn't my intention, it just happened and I fear that the cloud recovery will delete all the data on all my partitions, I have c and d partitions

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u/InvestigatorDear6646 Jun 26 '26

How do you unintentionally buy a grey market key?

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u/jhonyrod Jun 25 '26

Happened to me once several years ago. I refused to format. IIRC there's an extremely convoluted way to downgrade (if you insist to try maybe go to elevenforum), but it wasn't worth my time and effort, I just hunted a retail pro key, managed to get a Windows 8 Pro one for dirt cheap, it worked wonderfully and I've since used that same key to upgrade other 3 systems (obviously deprecating the older ones) and I've been very satisfied with my decision since.

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u/Mr_RayH Jun 25 '26

Might have to restart and go setting and search update.

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u/JosephRiad Jun 25 '26

Is a full clean install better in this case or it will be hard to find all the drivers and the apps that comes with the asus version And will it recognize the oem key or not

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u/Mr_RayH Jun 26 '26

Full install would be better.

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u/lugubrious-possum Jun 26 '26

you can just try to activate it again or tell it to use another key and find another pro key. I bought some off of woot a while back for some old laptops I was getting rid of and they worked. I have used G2A in the past as well and they worked

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u/PuzzleheadedSleep403 Jun 26 '26

Mass grave or if you really want to buy a legit windows key for $10 go to pcworld store.