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Buying the W8Pro upgrade will not upgrade in this way. I had posted something on this before but that thread had gone off track so i wanted to start a new update.įor users with a YOGA wanting to go to W8Pro with a clean install - the Propack works because it sees the W8 core key in the BIOS and is designed to upgrade from there.