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Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: On 10/11/2018 11:45 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: On 10/10/2018 11:44 PM, Buffalo wrote: Is it still possible to upgrade from Win7 Pro 64bit to Win10 Pro 64bit for free legally? If so, how? Thanks, Buffalo Try it first, using a spare hard disk. Do a clean install of Win 10 using its ISO then activate. ... using your Win 7 product key! Will this W7 key still work for W7 though? Or it will be transfer to W10 and never used again for W7? It still works. There's been no feedback to suggest it is invalidated. The Win8.1 I used on this machine to get Win10 still works. Paul |
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Paul wrote:
Ant wrote: Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: On 10/11/2018 11:45 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: On 10/10/2018 11:44 PM, Buffalo wrote: Is it still possible to upgrade from Win7 Pro 64bit to Win10 Pro 64bit for free legally? If so, how? Thanks, Buffalo Try it first, using a spare hard disk. Do a clean install of Win 10 using its ISO then activate. ... using your Win 7 product key! Will this W7 key still work for W7 though? Or it will be transfer to W10 and never used again for W7? It still works. There's been no feedback to suggest it is invalidated. The Win8.1 I used on this machine to get Win10 still works. Oh wow. Nice. I thought it would be transferred and not reusable on older version. Maybe I'll try W10 retail with my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 retail key. Wait, can multiple Windows versions and installation be used with the same key at the same time or only one at a time? -- Quote of the Week: "He who dislikes aardvarks was an ant in his former life." --unknown Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / http://antfarm.ma.cx / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- | |o o| | ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and URL/link. \ _ / ( ) |
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Ant wrote:
Paul wrote: Ant wrote: Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: On 10/11/2018 11:45 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: On 10/10/2018 11:44 PM, Buffalo wrote: Is it still possible to upgrade from Win7 Pro 64bit to Win10 Pro 64bit for free legally? If so, how? Thanks, Buffalo Try it first, using a spare hard disk. Do a clean install of Win 10 using its ISO then activate. ... using your Win 7 product key! Will this W7 key still work for W7 though? Or it will be transfer to W10 and never used again for W7? It still works. There's been no feedback to suggest it is invalidated. The Win8.1 I used on this machine to get Win10 still works. Oh wow. Nice. I thought it would be transferred and not reusable on older version. Maybe I'll try W10 retail with my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 retail key. Wait, can multiple Windows versions and installation be used with the same key at the same time or only one at a time? My assumption (untested) is the W7 install would have to be on the same computer as the W10 one. But since W10 activation doesn't seem to be that carefully policed (I can never figure out from the symptoms, what you're allowed to do), maybe you could get away with license multiplication. Run the W7 Retail on a second computer while running the W10 on the first computer. As a conservative individual, I'd probably be running that 7 and 10 on the same PC. That's what I'm doing right now, is stacking OSes on the PC they're associated with. (W8/W10 on this machine, W7/W8/W10/W10INS on the Test Machine, W7/W10 on the laptop.) And I've had one copy of W10 activate *without* a qualifying OS being presented. But that was early days, and perhaps a bug in the license server. Paul |
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"GlowingBlueMist" wrote in message news
On 10/10/2018 10:59 AM, Buffalo wrote: "Weatherman" wrote in message news Buffalo wrote: Is it still possible to upgrade from Win7 Pro 64bit to Win10 Pro 64bit for free legally? If so, how? Thanks, Buffalo Nope, gotta pay now. I have heard that. This is for a friend and I am hoping there is a low cost or still a free way to do it. Thanks, It's not official and I have not tried it myself but I have heard that if you have a retail license and use that number when asked for a W10 license number that the upgrade servers just might go ahead and upgrade your machine to a licensed W10 machine. If your friend has a blank hard drive or SSD it might be worth a try to pull the original W7 boot disk and plug one of them in, then give it a try. What do you have to loose if it don't work but a little time. This link might give you more information on the subject as well: https://www.howtogeek.com/272201/all...s-10-for-free/ The article the link takes you to is from January 2018 so it's always possible Microsoft has changed things since then. Excellent link and info. I will tell my friend about it and offer to help him if he decides he wants to do it. Thanks -- Buffalo |
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"Paul" wrote in message news
Buffalo wrote: "GlowingBlueMist" wrote in message news On 10/10/2018 10:59 AM, Buffalo wrote: "Weatherman" wrote in message news Buffalo wrote: Is it still possible to upgrade from Win7 Pro 64bit to Win10 Pro 64bit for free legally? If so, how? Thanks, Buffalo Nope, gotta pay now. I have heard that. This is for a friend and I am hoping there is a low cost or still a free way to do it. Thanks, It's not official and I have not tried it myself but I have heard that if you have a retail license and use that number when asked for a W10 license number that the upgrade servers just might go ahead and upgrade your machine to a licensed W10 machine. If your friend has a blank hard drive or SSD it might be worth a try to pull the original W7 boot disk and plug one of them in, then give it a try. What do you have to loose if it don't work but a little time. This link might give you more information on the subject as well: https://www.howtogeek.com/272201/all...s-10-for-free/ The article the link takes you to is from January 2018 so it's always possible Microsoft has changed things since then. Thanks for the idea and the link. He doesn't have a spare HDD or SSD. Doing "10 after 7" could be done as a multi-boot setup. Using Disk Management, shrink the Win7 partition down, then install Win10 in its own partition. You don't have to offer a key right away. You don't have to activate right away. If you decide to delete the Win10 partition(s) later, you *will* need the Macrium Reflect emergency boot CD with the "boot repair" option, to make Win7 boot again when Win10 is gone. If the C: drive content is small enough, you could use Macrium Reflect Free to back up the hard drive to one of these. This USB stick is $27 and is 128GB in size, and it writes at 27MB/sec. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16820211934 Don't forget to make the Macrium emergency boot CD when you do that. You need the emergency boot CD to boot the computer, if restoration is required. https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree My favorite version of that application is version 6. Version 6 still has imgtovhd.exe , which only I care about :-) Paul Excellent advice, Thanks Paul, -- Buffalo |
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