I know from experience that using a product key for an N version of Windows with a non-N version installation will fail.
Earlier I could just select the N edition in Microsoft's web form for downloading ISOs, but now when trying to download Windows 10 N all I'm offered is a media creation tool. As expected the tool was not a good replacement for the web form, and did not offer me any N versions.
- Why are no N versions offered? Have they been discontinued or something?
- Are they officially available somewhere else?
Update: I'm currently on Windows.
Update 2: None of the answers in the proposed duplicate solve the problem.
- 3rd party download link generator: "File is not available for download" on every try.
- Media creation tool: Doesn't work -- that's why I'm here.
- Change user agent in Firefox: Only offers me Windows 10 Fall Creator's Update. No N versions.
- HeiDoc Windows ISO downloader: Update 3: Initially abysmal transfer rates. They seem to increase to acceptable speeds after a while.
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Answer
After contacting Microsoft support I was assured that
Actually, once you boot the device with the Installation media [...]
you will see the Pro , Home a, N and KN editions. If and only if you
boot the device with an installation media.
The problem here was that the Media Creation Tool didn't tell you that all those variants were included in the edition that it simply calls "Windows 10", in combination with the fact that e.g. Windows 7 had different and incompatible images depending on whether your license key was N or not.
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