I have an official free Windows 10 on my laptop.
I have just bought 2 8TB drives which are not recognised by my XP offline desktop so I have to upgrade.
Since I already have Windows 10 from Microsoft on my laptop, is it possible also to install it on my desktop without charge?
If so, how do I do that, given that the desktop has no internet access?
Many thanks.
Going from WinXP to Win10 is problematic, will undoubtedly need to check for drivers for the motherboard and the year-long free part only applied to Win7 w/SP1 and Win8.1, officially ended July 29/Aug 2, 2016. Without Internet access you wouldn't be able to automatically activate Win10 but should be given a phone number to call. I have successfully Upgraded WinXP to Win7 then got Win10 installed but there were driver issues, mostly with onboard video adapters and I plugged in PCIe X16 cards to solve the issue. Same issues will apply to computers that ran Vista but again, I have one I first Upgraded to Win7 before getting Win10 on it [in fact it is going to a client next week]. Some older computers had issues with large HDDs, even those external USB models, may be BIOS issues.
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