transferring Windows 10 Educational onto a new PC

This might have been discussed already, but lately search has not been friendly to me. Moreover, my question is specific to the educational version of Windows. I have it installed on a separate SSD in my current machine, I use it rarely for testing purposes - my main OS is still Windows 7. Yea, I know, end of life, etc. - but it works great for me and I simply hate the way Windows 10 is integrated with the internet (mostly, connecting all the time to servers I don't know where for purposes unknown to me). But, I'm building a new machine and it seems unlikely I'll be able to install Windows 7 on it, simply because the lack of drivers.

So, since I already have Windows 10, I don't want to spend more money on it and would like to transfer the current license (I will need a clean install of course) to the new machine. The version I have is Educational (with a bit more control over updates and such). Are there any caveats on transferring this license or should I just use the standard tutorial?

Indeed, the current installation is MBR. The new will most likely be UEFI, that seems to be the modern way of doing things.

I have a bit of time to research these issues as I am still waiting for the new PSU to be delivered and am thinking about a new case, although it seems the current fashion is to dispense with external bays and so I will likely use my old case. It's a bit strange that all this is getting more complicated with time. With Windows 7 I just had a license key and that was all I needed.

Well this is not an OEM license (not an OEM machine either) and it's not retail. I prefer Educational since it gives more control over Windows, but it's a bit of a pain to deal with the University bureaucracy (I already called a few places, people answering phones typically don't know anything).

I don't trust those automatic transfer programs, I can reinstall my software myself, that's not a problem. I am spending money on the new build, but I just don't want to spend for what I already have, such as a Windows license.

The current license should in no way be related to Windows 7 - I have it installed on a separate hard drive. It's not even dual boot: I have a switch that turns on the drive I want to use, so the same machine can work either as Windows 7 or Windows 10. In the new build that will be likely impossible, which I find unfortunate, but it is what it is.

More practically perhaps, is there a way to extract the license out of the Educational install? If so, then I could deactivate the old machine, and then activate the new one and I should be OK, right?

AndreTen said:

Enterprise version is considered a full version, but is volume license. Usually you can transfer it to a new computer
Read more here:

groovypost | howto - transfer-windows-10-license-new-pc

Thanks for the link. This would work easily if I actually had the license key. What I believe I have is online activation through the campus license server. I am waiting for the University support to get back to me on that, perhaps the easiest thing would be to simply do it all over again without bothering with the license transfer. Or, if there is a license key hidden somewhere, then I can perhaps reuse it (I'm not sure how the volume licensing works, but maybe they do have a limit on how many machines can be activated).