Windows 7 upgrade dilemma

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  1. Posts : 3,453
       #11

    Not so sure about the "installation disc" part as Win 10 vanilla is an installation disc...
    To get an image that is pre-activated follow my previous post and image the Win 10 Home partition with Macrium Reflect and restore when required.
    I understand you have a system builder licence, that will carry over on the same hardware.
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  2. Posts : 505
    Windows 10 Pro (Mix of Builds) / Linux Mint
       #12

    I'm not sure of your reasons not to go to 10, but can respect them.

    That said, I haven't had anyone using 7 that I've upgraded who hasn't loved it after getting used to the new OS.

    I'm not saying there were those in that group who didn't have issue at first, a lot of them were HW/Driver related, but we sorted that out.

    I could agree with either method presented, certainly take an image of your windows 7 install to keep as a backup.

    The easier route IMO (because we talk about different ways of doing it without knowing your comfort level) without having to resort to partition re-sizing later on, etc. would be just to do the upgrade with the entitlement ...

    Making it both easy for you to perform, and you still have a 30 day "out" if you don't like it to go back.

    I have 7 systems in my house, and did every one of them, all good and all were of differing age.
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  3. Posts : 5,452
    windows 10 Pro ver 21H2 build 19044.1348
       #13

    To : safe01

    I have a post which was answered by our Admin, Brink.
    The scenario is different, but the principle/rule is the same.
    If you are interested, have a look.........................
    https://www.tenforums.com/installatio...activated.html
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  4. Posts : 3,453
       #14

    davidhk said:
    To : safe01

    I have a post which was answered by our Admin, Brink.
    The scenario is different, but the principle/rule is the same.
    If you are interested, have a look.........................
    https://www.tenforums.com/installatio...activated.html
    That is a completely different issue - we are not talking about duplication of licences... just getting digital entitlement for later use... it's really not that hard to understand, with all due respect.
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  5. Posts : 5,452
    windows 10 Pro ver 21H2 build 19044.1348
       #15

    Superfly said:
    That is a completely different issue - we are not talking about duplication of licences... just getting digital entitlement for later use... it's really not that hard to understand, with all due respect.
    You cannot get Digital Entitlement unless the OS is activated.
    You cannot get the OS activated unless you have a valid product key that is NOT in use.

    Installing Win 10 in a separate partition but using the same Win 7 product key will not get activated.
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  6. Posts : 3,453
       #16

    davidhk said:
    You cannot get Digital Entitlement unless the OS is activated.
    You cannot get the OS activated unless you have a valid product key that is NOT in use.

    Installing Win 10 in a separate partition but using the same Win 7 product key will not get activated.
    OMG... I give up! Do as you will.
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  7. Posts : 22,740
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #17

    safe01 said:
    I would like to continue using Windows 7 but my concern is that it is no longer supported after January 2020. Ideally, if my laptop is still working, I would like to switch to Windows 10 in December 2019. Is there any way of doing this for free by, say, creating a Windows 10 installation disc, or do all free Windows 10 upgrades by whatever means have to be completed by 29 July 2016?
    I'll take a stab at this one. To be honest I doubt you can do what you would want to do and get a free upgrade to 10. The best plan right now is to upgrade to 10 and try it out for the 30 days and see if you like it or not. If it's not what you want you can roll back to 7. Or if you make a back up of your current PC with 7 you can roll back at any time before or after the 30 days.

    Another thought is to try Classic shell if you don't like the new start menu. It's going to be almost the same as what you have now.

    HTH
    Jeff
    PS, and welcome to the forums. :)
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  8. Posts : 15
    W7 Home Premium x86 SP1 Build 7601
    Thread Starter
       #18

    BunnyJ said:
    I'll take a stab at this one. To be honest I doubt you can do what you would want to do and get a free upgrade to 10. The best plan right now is to upgrade to 10 and try it out for the 30 days and see if you like it or not. If it's not what you want you can roll back to 7.
    PS, and welcome to the forums. :)
    Thanks. Unfortunately I think you may be right. My main concern about upgrading to W10 is multiple driver incompatibility. I only upgraded from Vista to W7 last year and that was fairly problematic, but this will be way worse. As I said, ideally I would like to stick with W7 and only upgrade to W10 in a few years if my laptop is still working, but as there doesn't appear to be any consensus here how to do that it would seem it's not possible.
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  9. Posts : 22,740
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #19

    safe01 said:
    Thanks. Unfortunately I think you may be right. My main concern about upgrading to W10 is multiple driver incompatibility. I only upgraded from Vista to W7 last year and that was fairly problematic, but this will be way worse. As I said, ideally I would like to stick with W7 and only upgrade to W10 in a few years if my laptop is still working, but as there doesn't appear to be any consensus here how to do that it would seem it's not possible.
    I have to go along with your thinking on this. If you had trouble before you might encounter some again.
    My thought would be keep 7 and just do a hardware upgrade in Dec 2019, it would be about the right time.

    And happy computing.

    Jeff
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  10. Posts : 1,557
    W10 32 bit, XUbuntu 18.xx 64 bit
       #20

    safe01 said:
    Thanks. Unfortunately I think you may be right. My main concern about upgrading to W10 is multiple driver incompatibility. I only upgraded from Vista to W7 last year and that was fairly problematic, but this will be way worse. As I said, ideally I would like to stick with W7 and only upgrade to W10 in a few years if my laptop is still working, but as there doesn't appear to be any consensus here how to do that it would seem it's not possible.
    safe01

    Maybe I can shed some light on this. First backup your windows 7 system (There are instructions on the forum on how to do this). Next, install windows 10 upgrade. It should be digitally activated. Then you can restore your windows 7 and then upgrade or do a clean install of windows 10 at anytime. This is not a step by step instruction but read further before doing this but still do the backup of windows 7 and backup any data you might need.

    To All,
    It actually depends on the type of windows 7 disk safe01 has. If it is an upgrade disk, safe01 will have to upgrade 10 first, then do a clean install of 10. If the windows 7 disk is a retail disk, then safe01 can delete all partitions and do a clean install of windows 10. Sometimes the windows 7 key won't work until after windows 10 install is completed-my experience. Note, no key needed if upgrade from 7.
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