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Windows 10

aardvaak
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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?
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?
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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 reloadingSave a Rachael
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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?0 -
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 ?Save a Rachael
buy a share in crapita0 -
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?
Obviously "reformatting" means you lose everything so make sure you have saved your docs.0 -
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"?0 -
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 followingSave a Rachael
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PS , you omitted to tell me how you proposed to format the hard drive , can you explain how you were going to do this ?Save a Rachael
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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.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.0
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