New
#190
The whole paradigm has changed. If you upgrade to Win10 from a duly licensed Win7/8.1, it causes your machine to be 'registered' with MS servers (a hash code is generated from certain elements of your hardware). From that point on you can clean install new builds and they will automatically activate. I have done several clean installs of Preview Builds - during installation I just skip the product key entry. It automatically activates.
If you never upgraded from a valid 7/8.1 system, your Preview Builds won't activate, but there will be a new one coming along before the current one expires. But remember, the free Windows 10 deal is based on an upgrade from a valid 7/8.1 system...
In my case, w10 will not auto install on my W7 machine after I reserved a copy back in June. It tries every day but fails. I never get the ok to install. Now I will install a clean version 10532 on that machine to check if the failures are due to a hardware problem, I think not but have to check. Activation is uncertain.
I would suggest you first to install Build 10240 and get it through and activated then do anything else later. You can download 10240 ISO and mount it to upgrade to see if your hardware is compatible. Seems like this is your door to go any further.
Started from 10240 I hardly heard machines that incompatible to 10 can upgrade to the new Insider build without hardware upgrades.
Try the upgrade with a usb or dvd that you can get by using this tutorial. Much better result than another insider build
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...n-install.html