The versions matched -- both Professional. Neither the responder nor her supervisor could explain why it happened, but the bottom line is that they fixed it. At one stage she asked if she could take...

Didn't work for me. When I tried to activate W10 after a clean ISO install (on the same hardware) it wouldn't take the W7 key. I had to contact Microsoft and they gave me a new key.

It took about...

2016-07-06 15:33 (my son's birthday)

OK. The decision was taken out of my hands. W7 said it had installed 209 updates, and then never finished configuring them. At Stage 5. Left it overnight, and...

Thank you very much. I like the idea of the swappable drives, which I shall be looking into.

I wonder -- if I just go ahead and clean-install W10 on an empty HDD, at what point is Microsoft likely...

Yes.

Two reasons:

1. I want to see if I prefer W10 to W7 before getting rid of W7.

2. I'm afraid to upgrade the existing W7 because doing that destroyed the Linux partition on a netbook I...

I'm in more or less a similar situation, except that I want to have both W7 and W10 installed on a big tower which also has two Linux distros installed alongside W7.

I've already upgraded W7 to...