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Will Free Windows 10 "Upgrade" work with Clean Install (CMPXCHG16b)?
I have a 2006-era Compaq PC with an AMD 64 X2 4400+ CPU (Socket 939), and it runs Windows 7 Home Premium x64 perfectly. It can even run Windows 8 x64.
However, it cannot do the in-place Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 Technical Preview 64-bit upgrades, due to this confounded CMPXCHG16b CPU atomic memory swap instruction issue (not an issue with 32-bit variants, but I'm not interested in 32 bit, as my system has 4 GB PC-3200 of Crucial DDR RAM - all matched sticks, 3-3-3-8, dual channel, 128 bit access, very fast, and I want to be able to use *ALL* of it - hence my insistence on 64-bit).
My question is: With this free Microsoft Windows 10 "upgrade" policy, can I still take advantage of it, but using a clean install, instead of the (impossible) in-place Upgrade, using my valid Windows 7 Home Premium x64 retail Product Key?
Thanks in Adavance,
- Trev
Last edited by Trev0r09; 11 Mar 2015 at 09:54.