No "reserve your W10" icon in taskbar

almoststew1990 · 20 Sep 2015 at 19:36

How do I get Windows 10 on my PC? I don't have the "reserve your copy of Windows 10" icon on my taskbar, but I am up to date on my Windows updates. Is there somewhere else I can upgrade or otherwise convert my W7 key to a W10 key (and from there i'll be doing a clean install)

momo56 · 20 Sep 2015 at 19:59

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

This worked for me.

almoststew1990 · 20 Sep 2015 at 21:02

Thanks.

I'm now upgrading to W10. Once It is done, my w7 serial will be a w10 serial, and I use the same little exe to create a bootable iso? and just install W10 using that in the bios like normal?

Disco_P · 22 Sep 2015 at 12:43

Your windows 7 serial will stay being your windows 10 serial. You are not given a windows 10 serial (apart for the generic one).

You will need to upgrade first rather than fresh install as that will register your mobo for windows 10. Then you can fresh install.

To create a bootable USB I would recommend using Rufus.

If you want to get a windows 10 key for yourself you'll have to ask microsoft and they don't usually hand them out - only when things go wrong as described in this thread.

ED209 · 22 Sep 2015 at 13:08

just download the ISO file of W10 and run the setup.exe from it.

will go through the process of upgrading W7 to W10 but make sure the W7 install is activated BEFORE doing the upgrade then once on W10 make sure that is also activated

to make a USB bootable use the W10 creation tool

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-10/media-creation-tool-install

almoststew1990 · 23 Sep 2015 at 20:46

I did it in the end- My PC was trying to boot to a "UEFI *USB STICK*" rather than just *USB STICK*.

I read that the "cd key" / identity of my Windows 10 licence is my hardware. What happens when I upgrade? Do I have to do Windows 7- upgrade to 10- clean install 10 again?