Windows 10

aardvaak

I have a computer which did have Win 7 now upgraded to Win 10

What would happen if I reformatted it now - would it revert to Win 7 or load Win 10?

And what would happen if I reformatted it after July would I have to pay for Win 10?

pappa_golf

if you upgrade from win 7 or 8 (sucsessfully) you will se the following





notice the wording says " digital entitlement" , it is now the motherboard (and other parts of the computer) that are registered with Microsoft




What would happen if I reformatted it now - would it revert to Win 7 or load Win 10?


nothing , you would have a dead computer


HOWEVER , you can d/load win 10 (from m/soft site) and burn it to a dvd or pendrive , load it and skip the registration section , when the machine gets its first update , the server will read the motherboard and change the status to being "digitally entitled"




And what would happen if I reformatted it after July would I have to pay for Win 10?


you would do the above , whv should you pay , you are not upgrading , you are reloading

aardvaak

pappa_golf wrote: »

if you upgrade from win 7 or 8 (sucsessfully) you will se the following





notice the wording says " digital entitlement" , it is now the motherboard (and other parts of the computer) that are registered with Microsoft




What would happen if I reformatted it now - would it revert to Win 7 or load Win 10?


nothing , you would have a dead computer


HOWEVER , you can d/load win 10 (from m/soft site) and burn it to a dvd or pendrive , load it and skip the registration section , when the machine gets its first update , the server will read the motherboard and change the status to being "digitally entitled"




And what would happen if I reformatted it after July would I have to pay for Win 10?


you would do the above , whv should you pay , you are not upgrading , you are reloading

Why would I have a dead computer if it restores factory settings from the recovery drive on the computer?

pappa_golf

however you did not mention you had a recovery section on your machine


please read amended:


What would happen if I reformatted it now - would it revert to Win 7 or load Win 10?


hav,nt got a clue , it depends if your recovery section is still intact




And what would happen if I reformatted it after July would I have to pay for Win 10?

see above




ps: how do you propose to format your drive , please explain how you would do this ?

grumpycrab

aardvaak wrote: »

I have a computer which did have Win 7 now upgraded to Win 10

What would happen if I reformatted it now - would it revert to Win 7 or load Win 10?

If you have the Win 7 key you can still install Win 7 (you don't lose it when you upgrade to 10). Or you can install Win 10. Or create a multi-boot...
Obviously "reformatting" means you lose everything so make sure you have saved your docs.

aardvaak

pappa_golf wrote: »

however you did not mention you had a recovery section on your machine


please read amended:


What would happen if I reformatted it now - would it revert to Win 7 or load Win 10?


hav,nt got a clue , it depends if your recovery section is still intact




And what would happen if I reformatted it after July would I have to pay for Win 10?

see above




ps: how do you propose to format your drive , please explain how you would do this ?

Thank you but why wouldn't the "recovery section is still intact"?

pappa_golf

having never had the honour of working a "factory built" PC , I mainly deal with clean installs , and indeed suggest to people that do a win 7/8 upgrade to actually reformat and do a clean install to remove all the unwanted "garbage".


I have no idea if your original win 7 will still be there , or even after an install of win 10 will be acceptable


so ton answer your question (which was rather vague , and missed vital info)


if you upgrade from win 7 or 8 (successfully) you will see the following

pappa_golf

PS , you omitted to tell me how you proposed to format the hard drive , can you explain how you were going to do this ?

esuhl

aardvaak wrote: »

I have a computer which did have Win 7 now upgraded to Win 10

What would happen if I reformatted it now - would it revert to Win 7 or load Win 10?

If you format a drive, you effectively delete its contents. You would have neither Windows 7 nor Windows 10 installed.

If you have a Windows 7 recovery partition, you could use that to reinstall Windows 7. If you download a Windows 10 installation image, you could use that to reinstall Windows 10.

aardvaak wrote: »

And what would happen if I reformatted it after July would I have to pay for Win 10?

No; you could install Windows 10 and the activation process should complete automatically if you are using the same hardware as when you initially upgraded from Win 7 to 10. Or you could use Windows 7, or a different operating system entirely.