Windows 7 to 10

foreright

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Am I being naïve, or. Is it legitimate to upgrade to W10 and use you W7 product key for activation. I have read it on a number of sites but would like an official answer from you guys - who I trust to give honest answer.
 
Thanks. After the W10 1903 update on my laptop, I noticed that the disk space used for the OS was in excess of 50Gb. My PC which runs W7 has 35 Gb of SSD HD space left.
As I want to run an upgrade from W7, do you think that will be sufficient and if so, will I be able to recover some after the upgrade.
 
I would've thought 35gb would be more than enough.

Are you able to to install W10 from scratch and just use your W7 key to activate it?
 
I could buy a new SSD and do a clean install as you say. But I thought if I installed it over W7, I wouldn't have to reinstall my existing programs that are running on the boot drive.
Would it be better to install it from scratch then?
 
I have had two oem W7 to W10 fail on me, one of them was about a year ago, 120gb os drive waz near full, but the PC passed all the validation and qualified for the free upgrade.

The upgrade failed, the W7 was then reverted back and invalidated. A year later it never got sorted, I gave up basically.

My daughter failed last month, another oem licence. But i sorted a new key with that.

I have two PC's left with W7 ultimate retail keys, but do not trust they will upgrade.

One tbing, not sure if relevant, all my W7 were either dvd retail or oem, none had keys assigned to a microsoft account, but all registered to me.

My sons and daughters were re-done with their Microsoft accounts though failed.
 
Yeah it still works, I did it last week with both a Windows 7 and a Windows 8 key. Both were accepted.
 
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