Convoluted Windows 10 Upgrade Question

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I have a current windows 7 machine that I am upgrading with a new mobo, CPU, GPU and a SSD. My intention was to upgrade this to windows 10.

So I took my PC apart to install the new hardware including the SSD and ran into an unrelated hardware problem but it got me thinking, how am I going to install windows 10 on the SSD?.

So I downloaded the Windows 10 ISO onto a USB stick, but upon research it appears the windows 10 clean install won't accept windows 7 product keys (according to my google research).

Just install windows 7 first i hear you cry, however the slight problem is my Optical Drives are all IDE based and my new Mobo does not have an IDE port.

The only options i see are:
1. Buy an IDE to SATA converter (Maplins - £21.99 ouch...)
2. Buy a new disk drive that is SATA
3. Put the old PC back together and Upgrade to Windows 10, get the product key, take it apart, put in new hardware, clean windows 10 install

Is there a way of installing windows 10 with a windows 7 product key or am i stuck with the above?
 
Windows 10 recently had a major upgrade that allows it to be activated using a Windows 7 or 8/8.1 product key, without needing to upgrade from an installed version of that OS.

If you used the official Windows 10 Media Creation Tool - https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10 - recently, it will have downloaded the updated installer and it will activate fine when you use your 7 key. Never done this myself (all my installs were older upgrades that MS activated, then fresh installs afterwards) but should work fine.
 
Confused Stu said:
Windows 10 recently had a major upgrade that allows it to be activated using a Windows 7 or 8/8.1 product key, without needing to upgrade from an installed version of that OS.

If you used the official Windows 10 Media Creation Tool - https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10 - recently, it will have downloaded the updated installer and it will activate fine when you use your 7 key. Never done this myself (all my installs were older upgrades that MS activated, then fresh installs afterwards) but should work fine.
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did it 3 days ago, didnt work, though i didnt select updates option when downloading, it may from the iso download, the link is in another post, just look down a bit
 
lude1962 said:
did it 3 days ago, didnt work, though i didnt select updates option when downloading, it may from the iso download, the link is in another post, just look down a bit
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Just looked up some more info, and it seems Microsoft originally updated the Media Creation Tool to the November update, then pulled it and reverted back to the July setup. They've now reinstated the November installer to the Media Creation Tool but it only happened about 3 days ago. Wonder if you were unlucky and got your installer in the period they'd pulled the update?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/25/windows_10_download_explained/
 
I didn't think they were reinstating the November update via ISO but only through Windows Update? I downloaded MCT again only yesterday and it was still the original 10240 release, not the 10586 update... Worth checking the version properties of MCT before you start the full download...
 
Nanobot said:
I didn't think they were reinstating the November update via ISO but only through Windows Update? I downloaded MCT again only yesterday and it was still the original 10240 release, not the 10586 update... Worth checking the version properties of MCT before you start the full download...
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I just downloaded the USB MCT tool and it is the new updated version 10586

 
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