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when running the windows 10 upgrade downloaded from Microsofts site it does not ask for a new key and will get the message\u00a0setup-has-failed-to-validate-the-product-key<\/p>\n
https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/947130\/windows-10-setup-has-failed-to-validate-the-product-key<\/a><\/p>\n None of the other answers worked for me, though Moshe Katz’s answer did point me to the log files. Under\u00a0 I opened an admin command prompt, browsed to\u00a0 when running the windows 10 upgrade downloaded from Microsofts site it does not ask for a new key and will get the message\u00a0setup-has-failed-to-validate-the-product-key https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/947130\/windows-10-setup-has-failed-to-validate-the-product-key None of the other answers worked for me, though Moshe Katz’s answer did point me … Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broken","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/wildow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}C:\\$Windows.~BT\\Sources\\Panther<\/code>\u00a0there are two log files, including an\u00a0setuperr.log<\/code>\u00a0which indicated to me that it was in fact a license key issue. This did cause me a little confusion because I was never prompted to enter a key; I suspect Setup was attempting to autoactivate using the Windows 7 key or was looking for a Windows 10 OEM license in the BIOS.<\/p>\nC:\\ESD\\<\/code>\u00a0where the media creation tool stores its files, and I ran\u00a0setup \/pkey xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx<\/code>\u00a0using the retail product key we purchased and Setup worked perfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"