Windows 8 > Windows 10

roberthutchinson

Kharma said:

The Sultry Lady said:

Kharma said:

I have windows 7 on my laptop and qualify for the free 10 upgrade, is there anyway to d/l and save it to a usb drive to install at a later date, or if you click on the popup for the update does it automatically start installing?  I will be installing Windows 10 home 64 bit on my new build but can't decide if I should go for the upgrade on my laptop, but want to save the free upgrade for a later time in case I do decide to upgrade it after the free period expires.

I believe that it will download the software and you can install it later.  At least that was what I originally was going to do before I built my PC and purchased the Windows 10 software. I got the free upgrade and it downloaded to my PC where I could install it later.  I am pretty sure that you could do that with a flash drive, or at least copy the download from the pc to the flash drive.  I did not go this route because I did not want an upgrade product or mess with their activation key solution by using your windows 7 or 8 key.  I did not want any of their possible glitches, later if I had to reinstall and I do not like upgrades.  I wanted a newer pc and a beefier one for my DAZ Iray and I wanted the purchsed disk with the key that came with it.  In this way, I know if and when I need to rebuild my software, it will be very easy and none of the trailing garbage that upgrades leave behind will be left on my disks that can sometimes cause issues.  Clean installs, in my opinion, are the only way to go.

 

I would want a clean install for sure, so I assumed that once I did the upgrade and got the key I could wipe the hard disk and then do a clean install of 10 from the USB..could that be possible to do ?

Edit: also I heard there was going to be an update to 10 called "Redstone" in the next coming months which will hopefully address some of the privacy issues of windows 10

unfortunately, you are only going to be downloading an upgrade and not a full install. This is why I purchased a full install. You will need to supply your old windows disk with the install from scratch because it needs to know that you had a Windows installed at first. This should work. You will need to use the old Windows key or a combination of the one they give you, if they give you one. Hopefully this Windows 10'will not need a fully installed OS for the upgrade to work. I do not know this. Every other Microsoft version upgrade, if you did an upgrade version from  blank disk, just required you to put in the original cd so it could check to see if you really had a proper OS that it wanted to upgrade, and it had to be an OS that was capable to be upgraded from, for example Windows 10 can only be upgraded from Windows 7 or 8, but not vista, or Xp or etc. you have time to try it out if you want to do. If it does not work, then you will need to purchase the full install.

 

SixDs

"Remember, the free upgrade will end in March sometime"

Actually, it will remain available until July 29, 2016. (a year from the day that it was first offered)

"Hopefully this Windows 10'will not need a fully installed OS for the upgrade to work. I do not know this"

When the free upgrade was first offered you did need to allow Microsoft Update to do an upgrade installation first in order to perform validation , then you would be able to re-install the operating system as a new, clean installation. However, Microsoft has since enabled the installation of the Windows 10 free upgrade without the need to upgrade your current Windows first. You simply need installation media and the licence key from your Windows 7 or 8.