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URL to download Windows 10 Home

Please provide me with the URL address or method I can use to create a Windows 10 Home bootable flash drive or DVD.

I have already tried using the  Media Creation Link which is supposed to be good for everything except Enterprise https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10.

The problem is that when I created and then installed Windows 10 using the flash drive I had created from this URL link I was never given the chance to install Windows 10 Home.

The OS that installed was Windows 10 Pro.

Please provide me with the correct steps or URL hyperlink I need to visit to either create a Windows 10 Home bootable installation flash drive or to download the Windows 10 Home ISO.
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I was never given the chance to install Windows 10 Home.   The OS that installed was Windows 10 Pro.

You cannot do this via the Media Creation Link. The "Upgrade / Reinstall" process only installs what you have.

If you lookup Microsoft Techbench, you may be able to download the ISO you want. You can then use this on another computer. I have downloaded from Techbench and it has worked (I have a Windows 10 Pro 64-bit DVD)
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Actually, the ISO created through the media creation link DOES ask whether or not you want to install Home or Pro  UNLESS you're installing '10 on a system with a BIOS locked key (e.g. Dell, HP, etc.) that implies a specific version (e.g. if the key implies Windows 7 Pro, then the '10 installer will automatically choose Windows 10 Pro)   OR  if you're doing a clean install over an existing Win 10 intall already on the disk -- in which case it will choose the same version.

In the latter case you can force a choice by clearing the disk before doing the install => ideally by completly zeroing it with a disk utility; but simply deleting all current partitions will generally work.