Upgrading to 10 on a Dell Venue 8 Pro

[tinpanalley]

I want to install Windows 10 on my Dell Venue 8 Pro running 8.1.
Some things I need help with...
1. Using the media creation tool (that I keep reading is the best way), if System tells me I have simply "Windows 8.1" then which do I install..
- Windows 10
- Windows 10 Home Single Language
- Windows 10 N
The chart on MS's site says to install "Windows 10 Home" but that 's not one of the three options and I don't want to get stuck with a single language installation. I need several languages installed on the system.

2. Is it true that I need to have installed Win10 at some point for MS's servers to recognise my product id? So does that mean I should actually allow the tablet to upgrade using MS's "Get Windows 10" upgrade tool and then once it's upgraded, then reinstall via the media creation tool again?

Thank you!!

 

[Mushkins]

1) You want the one that just says "Windows 10." Don't worry about the Home/Pro designation, the media contains all versions and your product key determines what the media installs at the time of installation. Single Language and N versions are for particular licensing programs where the software needs to comply with some specific international import/export regulation, those versions are not available outside of specific countries.

2) That *was* the case when Win10 first launched, but it is no longer required as of the Windows 10 Fall Update released in November 2015. You can now plug in any upgrade-eligible Windows 7/8/8.1 key and do a clean install, and it will activate properly.

 

[tinpanalley]

1) You want the one that just says "Windows 10." Don't worry about the Home/Pro designation, the media contains all versions and your product key determines what the media installs at the time of installation. Single Language and N versions are for particular licensing programs where the software needs to comply with some specific international import/export regulation, those versions are not available outside of specific countries.

2) That *was* the case when Win10 first launched, but it is no longer required as of the Windows 10 Fall Update released in November 2015. You can now plug in any upgrade-eligible Windows 7/8/8.1 key and do a clean install, and it will activate properly.

Thanks so much for clarifying. The only thing I need to figure out now is how to do a recovery image. Apparently, it's not possible on this tablet. The UEFI structure impedes the ability to do a recovery image to the microSD or microUSB slots, and it won't load an image from an external HDD (apparently). The only other thing I can do is a back to stock recovery boot disk of sorts and I'd rather have an actual frozen-in-time image of the tablet as it is (working perfectly) today. Any thoughts?