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I'm trying to upgrade my Windows 11 Home to Education edition with a key offered in Microsoft Azure to students at my college and yet I'm having no luck. When I try to change it in Settings > System > Activation I get an error regarding "can't upgrade your edition of Windows". (Image 1)
Upon research I try to use a generic Windows 11 Pro key first to upgrade then afterward switch from Pro to Education but have no luck with a error of an invalid code. (Also tried with the wifi off as suggested). (Image 2)
Then using some command prompts (admin mode) I saw the Current Edition and Target Editions (Image 3)
Finally I also tried to follow steps in forum:
Cleaning up the component store should resolve the problem in most cases. From an admin command prompt, please run: "DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup" then run: "DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth"
Which resulted in a non-completion for the first command and the second command says it completed but strangely the completion bar only ever got to 84.9%. (Image 4)
I tried reaching out to my schools IT with a zoom call and a ticket but they weren't able to help and recommened going to Microsoft support. (Also which isn't allowed on a school email and tells me to contact my school's IT) Which leaves me here confused and spirit broken.
Hello, It looks like the error code showing says that the product key has been blocked.
Please see error code below:
Thank you for your time to respond, as of this morning when I turned on my pc I noticed a faint text (bottom right of the monitor) saying to activate Windows.
Upon looking into it, I saw for some reason my pc’s Windows edition wasn’t confirmed and said Windows 11 Enterprise (which didn’t ever come up in my testing the day before)
So as something had clearly changed I attempted the key again and it worked. Windows 11 Education edition. No idea what changed or happened other than me shutting off the pc going to bed and turning it on the next morning. Whether this was a hotfix or a divine act, I’ll never know. Sorry I can’t help any following people with the same issue. I hope you are blessed in the same way I was. :)
