I HAVE PROOF THAT WITH WINDOWS 10 FREE UPGRADE IS CRAP
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you need to upgrade from a previous OS first so a activated version of Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8.1. once upgraded to 10, make sure its activated before formatting and then doing a clean install of W10.
skip the two parts where it asks for a key and then once all installed and on the net it should activate fine. I did this but went from W7
if you only have windows 8 installed download the ISO and try and run the setup.exe from it and see if it will allow you to upgrade to W10, this may not work though but may save you some time
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I was planning to:
1. Disconnect my Win7 hard drive.
2. Connect a new hard drive.
3. Install Win7 on the new hard drive.
4. Upgrade to Win10 on the new hard drive.
5. Do a clean install of Win10 on the new hard drive.
6 Connect the old Win7 hard drive.
7 Swap between the two on boot-up at my leisure.
You think this will be problematic? Win7 installation will be 'de-activated'?
I think it will as its going to be appearing as in use under W7 and W10, never done this myself but think its going to deactivate one of the 2 as it will see it as 2 Os's using the same key\hardware ID
This may actually work as it was a similar thing that happend with Windows 7 to Windows 8 upgrade. The only issue I can think of would be that it would definitly be against the EULA
For those saying you can go back to 7/8... that may only be true for 1 month after upgrade.
That's actually what MS website says. You can roll back to your previous OS only within the 1st month of upgrading to Win10... Who knows if the license will remain valid after that?
I wonder if this is a planned colossal cluster**** from MS, designed to screw as many people as possible... wouldn't put it past them
That's actually what MS website says. You can roll back to your previous OS only within the 1st month of upgrading to Win10... Who knows if the license will remain valid after that?
I wonder if this is a planned colossal cluster**** from MS, designed to screw as many people as possible... wouldn't put it past them
For those saying you can go back to 7/8... that may only be true for 1 month after upgrade.
That's actually what MS website says. You can roll back to your previous OS only within the 1st month of upgrading to Win10... Who knows if the license will remain valid after that?
I wonder if this is a planned colossal cluster**** from MS, designed to screw as many people as possible... wouldn't put it past them
it means the rollback feature in windows 10 is only active for 1 month..
i think you can manually reinstall windows 7/8.1 at anytime
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Yeah, the rollback refers to how long it keeps the Windows.old folder.
A reinstall is different.
A reinstall is different.
That isn't good... I didn't get it yet & this sounds like a reason not to...
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lol, I had a feeling this might happen.... way to go MS, looks the life of a pc is the time between updates on your motherboard bios, a period that can be pretty short with newer hardware
Right my new motherboards in and now windows 10 has deactivated itself. So to get this all sorted again I'm gonna have to download the latest ISO of windows 8.1 and hope my old key works for activation the upgrade to windows 10. Will an old copy of windows 8.1 work? I have this on dvd somwhere.
This is what i have done with my main pc, basically i wanted to see what problems i would run into (if any) before i do the upgrade on my main drive. Windows 10 on my spare drive all works fine, then when i was finished playing with it i reconnected my ssd win7 drive and carried on as normal. i will probably go ahead and upgrade the ssd when am next off work
It's a bug, it will sort itself out, nothing to worry about
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Technically this can happen with any version of windows, it really depends how much has changed in the BIOS update.
I guess that's the catch with the 'free' upgrade. Mobo go boom and you have to fork out for a new mobo AND a retail Win10 key.
Or just go to linux... Frankly all im seeing with Windows 10 at the moment is a glaring opportunity for a lot of people to ditch Microsoft and just go with Linux. I havn't quite done it yet myself but my mobo for this arguments sake is around 4 years old and ill be upgrading it in the coming 2 years, no way im upgrading for 'free' if this is the case.