Windows 10 cheap?

red eye · 21 Nov 2017 at 17:51

I need an os for my old not broken anymore laptop, give it to my little boy.

So I googles oem Windows 10 key and got prices from £25 to 7.25 in the sponsors box, I know with downloads you get no pysical disk and postage fees But under £8 there’s got to be a catch right?

red eye · 22 Nov 2017 at 09:16

The laptop is around 12 Year’s old, it had vista on it. It stopped working ages ago and I can’t find the recovery discs.

I had a look on ocuk they don’t sell oem anything anymore and I don’t want to spend £100 on Windows for a 12 Year old laptop. I’ll have another look for the recovery disc but I think I binned them when I had a cd/dvd clear out.

red eye · 22 Nov 2017 at 09:39

What are the chances that my win7 key still works after upgrading to 10?

red eye · 22 Nov 2017 at 10:20

skyripper said:
I agree its not morally right. I'm not endorsing these obviously "too cheap to be true" prices.

The OP could find out their existing Vista key (ie, is it on a sticker on the bottom, or using JellyBeanSoftware Keyfinder [assuming it boots]), source an ISO and reinstall quite legally.

The sticker is unreadable and the hdd well the laptop fell off the table and stopped working, i reseated the ram and hdd then replaced the hdd with my win 7 ssd it still wouldn’t work.
Turns out the hdd is fine and now has a backup copy of win 10, it was the keyboard.

red eye · 22 Nov 2017 at 10:32

Glanza said:
Stick Linux on at no cost?

good point but while my little boy could probably master it in time I got no chance if I couldn’t make that kodi Ubuntu thing to do what I wanted it to do.

I think I’m stuck

red eye · 22 Nov 2017 at 11:23

Armageus said:
Because they are sold by 3rd party sellers on that site who don't care?

As above - being activated isn't the same thing as being legal.

"Grey market" keys tend to come from none retail channels, e.g. Volume licenses intended (and paid for by a business - e.g. who buy a single license key that activates 500 times), academic keys (e.g. for Schools and Universities), or MSDN keys which are intended for testing on a limited number of PCs e.g. for Software development purposes.

So say I brought a hdd with Windows preinstalled from a pc builder, is this volume licence only to be installed on pcs built by the licence holder?