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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Not at all. A USB stick or DVD burned with the media creation tool will work fine for upgrading a PC instead of doing the direct download (via Win update or the Media tool). It's one of the reasons they offered it as an option so if you're upgrading multiple PC's you don't have to do the download a bunch of times.
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That is correct and is in fact how all our machines here have been upgraded (8.1 Pro machines with 10 Pro MCT media) but the question is (as ESchwartz has alluded to) will Pro media, for example, created using the Media Creation Tool allow, for example, an upgrade of a Home machine. This is what Wodin was endeavouring to do and is what I was responding to.
What Kennyc has just said is what I believe to be true though and so the media was likely Wodin's problem and what I said is probably correct.
My understanding at day one of release, so it may have been subsequently changed, was:
- Windows 7 Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Windows 8.0 Core, Windows 8.1 Core one must create Windows 10 Home media with MCT
- Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8.0 Pro, Windows 8.1 Pro one must create Windows 10 Pro media with MCT.
The fact that Wodin was asked for a key when trying to update the Home machine bears out that this restriction likely still applies (when, generally, an activation key will be asked for only if the target machine's Windows 7/8 has not been activated and one assumes Wodin's wife's machine was activated).
Also, in my experience (with Pro only) the media created by the MCT for a specific edition is much smaller than the full Windows 10 iso.
Maybe someone else who has tried updating a Windows 7/8 Home PC to 10 Home with MCT created Pro media can comment. I suspect if it is going to work at all (unlikely?), one will need a Windows 10 key.