ISO image Win 10/64 Pro

wongataa

50Twuncle wrote: »

This will act as an UPGRADE rather than a clean install - will it ?

It can do both. It depends on what option you pick when you start the installation procedure. TO make sure you perform an in place upgrade run the setup file on the created DVD/USB stick install media while you are in your current Windows install.

davebu

Is the only way to get w10 future options to go through the upgrade process from w7/w8, or can you achieve that from a fresh install? (I don't want mess up my current os even though you can roll it back). Thanks

System

Hi

I had Win 7 installed and it wouldn't update etc. So I got an .iso of W10 and made a "genuine ticket.xml".

Clean install of W10 apply genuine ticket and all is tickety boo.

So I can go back to W7, stay with W10 and/or re-install W10 later.

I got mine from...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/techbench

probably you did the same.

For the article I went here...

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/23354-clean-install-windows-10-directly-without-having-upgrade-first.html

If you have an old HDD then install onto that, remembering it is effectively the System Board you are registering, and then go back to the other OS. You could try and shrink C: enough to make a new partition and install that-a-way. Hiding the current one if needed.

Warning Will Robinson, the Genuine Ticket is for exactly a like for like.

Don't do what I did and install British English version(single language), if the original you have is a 'US' version (and NO I didn't know using the single language version wouldn't get activated) with an add on UK system.

I had to remove the UK version and install the US and do a region change.

esuhl

davebu wrote: »

Is the only way to get w10 future options to go through the upgrade process from w7/w8, or can you achieve that from a fresh install? (I don't want mess up my current os even though you can roll it back). Thanks

You can use the ISO to do a clean installation. When prompted for the product key, enter your Windows 7/8 one.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-10/activation-in-windows-10

I did this recently just to make sure I grabbed the free upgrade in case I want to use Windows 10 in future.

davebu

Thanks for the replies.

So, if I do I fresh install of w10 onto a new hard drive, then once activated, I can just take that drive out, chuck it in a cupboard, and carry on using my current os until 2020, then in 2020 put back in the new hard drive?

50Twuncle

I have now re-run GWX with the option set to ALLOW UPDATE - It is currently downloading - so appears to be OK
Next problem will be "WILL THE WIN 7 RESTORE WORK"
(I do have the retail DVD if necessary - though I hope not)

[Deleted User]

I've got an ISO copy of Win 10 - I have a MSDN license and can download any version of windows whenever I like.

I might just download Windows 3.1 and create a VM of it for a laugh

50Twuncle

ringo_24601 wrote: »

I've got an ISO copy of Win 10 - I have a MSDN license and can download any version of windows whenever I like.

I might just download Windows 3.1 and create a VM of it for a laugh

I ran DOS 5 in VM on an i7 PC - and it was like throwing a lightswitch
It was instant on !!
Remember the max partition size is 2Gb

onomatopoeia99

ringo_24601 wrote: »

I might just download Windows 3.1 and create a VM of it for a laugh

Can you still get Trumpet Winsock to connect it to a TCP/IP network, or are you going to to use IPX/SPX? (or token ring, or banyan or something equally esoteric?)

[Deleted User]

Hmm apparently HyperV doesn't like anything older than Win98 ..