Windows 8 to Windows 10

big.rich1976

big.rich1976

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Hi all,


I have a Lenovo G700 which came preinstalled with Windows 8 and was upgraded to windows 10 via the free upgrade. Now my question is this? I want to reinstall windows but i'm presuming it will reinstall 8 first from the recovery partition. How will i get it back upto Windows 10? I dont recall getting a key or anything like that when i upgraded.

Kind Regards
Richard
 
I would get a second SSD and load Windows 10 onto that, keeping the original one safe in case you wanted Win 8.1 back or wanted to sell the Lappy in the future.

( I went to sell an oldish Lappy of mine but they wanted the recovery partition but I had deleted all the partitions )

As for Installing Win 10. You won't need a key. Seeing it has already been updated your machines info is now stored on their servers and you can activate by your digital entitlement and it will do this automatically.

I believe you can still download Win 10 direct from Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10ISO

I would not worry about the drivers, Win 10 will pick em up and everything will work has it should.
 
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No you don't need to do that, create a windows 10 bootable USB installation pen and install from that. If prompted for a key during installation just hit skip. It will activate using a digital entitlement stored on the Ms activation servers against your computer's hardware hash.

Alternatively you can go to settings - update and security - recovery - reset this pc and select the remove everything option, this will effectively give you a clean install.
 
nightmare99 said:
No you don't need to do that, create a windows 10 bootable USB installation pen and install from that. If prompted for a key during installation just hit skip. It will activate using a digital entitlement stored on the Ms activation servers against your computer's hardware hash.

Alternatively you can go to settings - update and security - recovery - reset this pc and select the remove everything option, this will effectively give you a clean install.
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Exactly my experience, just install and skip any requests for a key, it'll activate as soon as you go online. Done this on loads of laptops and PCs at work that I upgraded from 7 & 8 to 10, then are used by people who can mess up a PC quicker than you'd believe possible! :D
 
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