Installing Windows 10 to a new Hard Disk.

A few weeks ago, I downloaded the Media Creation Tool and created a Windows 10 Recovery disk and used it to do
a clean install of my W10 upgraded installation on my desktop. It went well.

Now I find I would like to put W10 on my Win 7 Acer laptop and plan to remove the existing hdd and replace it with a new one on which I will install W10. Can I use the existing W10 Recovery disk to do that installation? Assuming I can, will I run into an activation problem because I don't have a product key? If so, how do I get a product key?

Thank you.

Being a different PC by rights you need to buy windows 10 to get a key and for it to activate

On your Acer Windows 7 laptop, insert the USB flash drive you created with the Media Creation Tool (with Windows 7 running, just like you were going to copy files to or from it). Run setup.exe from it. It will upgrade your Windows 7 to Windows 10, establish the digital license for Windows 10 on Microsoft Activation servers and then you can clean install Windows 10 to that laptop later if you want.

Gosh, that is too easy. Thank you very much.

NavyLCDR said:

On your Acer Windows 7 laptop, insert the USB flash drive you created with the Media Creation Tool (with Windows 7 running, just like you were going to copy files to or from it). Run setup.exe from it. It will upgrade your Windows 7 to Windows 10, establish the digital license for Windows 10 on Microsoft Activation servers and then you can clean install Windows 10 to that laptop later if you want.