I am gonna upgrade my pc very soon and I am gonna switch pretty much everything except my hard drive. I am aware that I will have to re-install windows so I am gonna buy windows 10 home 64bit.
is it possible to upgrade my windows so I will keep all my files. I already have windows 8.1 on it so why wouldn't it work?
I'm about to build my first desktop, and I have a laptop with Windows 10 (upgraded from 7 which it came with). I don't plan on using the laptop anymore, so is it possible to install the laptop's hard drive into the desktop then move the Windows install to an SSD? If not, should I just buy a Win10 key or would it be possible to contact Microsoft about transferring the OS over?
View 1 RepliesI've already upgraded to Windows 10 on my desktop PC, and there were no issues with the upgrade. However, I work from home and my work has informed me that they won't accept Windows 10, they will only accept 7 or 8.1 as their operating system (they also only accept Internet Explorer for browsing, etc.). So I can either downgrade, which I really don't want to do, buy a second PC, which I can't afford to do, or (I'm hoping) create a new partition and run Windows 7 from that.
So my question is, is it possible to create a new partition for Windows 7 while running Windows 10 on my main partition? Will I have to downgrade and install Windows 10 later? Or can I do it from Windows 10 already?
So I just got a new copy of windows 7, with a free upgrade to windows 10. And my question is. If I buy an SSD and install the new OS on that. Can I use my old hard drive for storage such as my steam library and a few applications etc even if it still has the previous OS on it? I know I'd have to set the SSD as my boot drive.
View 1 RepliesMy original Seagate 2TB hard drive crapped out on my HP Pavilion 500-424 PC. I bought a new 2TB hard drive along with a Windows 10 disc to install. The sales guy said it would be like installing a normal program from CD, just put it in and follow the prompts. Trouble is I keep getting a no OS message, boot device not found, hard disc 3FO. Apparently I'm missing something big here. Any way installing Windows 10 on a blank internal hard disc ?
View 1 RepliesI've upgraded to 10 from W7, and I've had nothing but problems with it, so i'm concerned about the installation to a different SSD than the one I'm using, my mind is telling me it should be fine as the Upgrade happened all on the same hardware, but changing the location of installation, does that affect activation?
View 6 RepliesI was under the impression that I was going to have a hard drive failure and purchased a new hard drive and cloned windows to it. it turned out my drive is fine, so I would like to use the drive as a second drive in my system.
if I just plug it in, will my computer boot from the now C: drive or will it boot from the second drive, since it is a bootable drive?
Or can I plug it in after it booted up?
it is installed and the power is connected, but the data cable is not.
I gave my C: drive a name so I can find it in file manager and don't format the wrong drive when I plug in the second drive.
I previously used windows xp and just went and bought a new hard drive and windows 10 usb. I installed the hard drive along with my old master drive, using it as slave i presume. Will it auto partition the new hard drive..
View 5 RepliesI am about to get a new 240Gb SSD and have been advised to clean install Windows 10 on it. This SSD will replace a SATA HDD in my existing computer running Windows 8.1. I know that I qualify for the free upgrade; I have the "Get 10" icon on my task bar.
My first question is, can I get the 10 installation media without buying it and if so, how?
Do I need to upgrade the computer to 10 before replacing the OS hard drive with the new SSD and clean installing?
I have a laptop and a desktop with a 120 gig ssd and a 64 gig SSD respectively. Both computers have conventional hard drives as drive D. I have two 250 gig SSD's on the way. What is the best strategy for moving to the new SSD's and preforming the clean install of Windows 10. The desktop is running Windows 10 insider preview 130 and the laptop is on Windows 8.1.
View 5 RepliesI am looking to upgrade from Windows 7 to 10. I have a PC with Windows 7 and core applications on an SSD. For storage I have a 1TB HDD. I have heard that the clean install of Windows 10 is the way to go but I don't want to go through the trouble of backing up everything. I was wondering if I can do a clean install on just the SSD, so the hard drive remains unaffected, but the SSD is wiped and a clean Windows 10 is installed.
View 1 RepliesI have two hard drives in my pc. One is a small ssd for windows and the other is a large HDD for all of my programs and games.
I want office to be installed on my HDD. I bought office and downloaded the setup file but when I run it, I get no options or anything.
As soon as I open it it installs office to my ssd but I want it on the HDD. How do I install it on my HDD?
Upgraded to windows 10 pro via the media creation tool...its activated and going pretty well..so now i want to format my hard drive and clean install it...how can i do this safely? and will it be deactivated if i do a format?
View 1 RepliesI have installed Windows 10 on a new clean hard drive because the old one with Windows 8 died but the new one with Windows 10 wont show any wireless connections. By the way the computer I'm typing on is Windows 10.
View 1 RepliesI want to do a fresh install of Windows on my new SSD and wipe everything off my current hard-drive. The reason why I want to do this is because my new SSD arrived and my drivers are a little bugged and I want to start over.
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That's the thing I'm going to be using^. I already have it on a CD.
So do I just plug in the SSD, then set the primary boot device to the CD? Then install Windows 10 64-bit to the SSD? That's it?
Also, how am I going to wipe my current hard drive?
I was wondering if it was possible to copy the Windows 10 OS to another hard drive and still be able to use the old one. I have an old laptop, mainly used for videos and internet use, and I would still like to be able to have it for mobility purposes. I'm in the process of building a gaming PC, so of course, I'll need an OS for that as well.
View 1 RepliesWhat partitions I should have on my hard drive after I upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows Home Premium Build 10586. I have some new small partitions and I don't know if they belong to the OS or they got allocated from another source.
View 1 RepliesI recently clean-installed Windows 10 after having some issues. I gave an expansion drive the letter A:, and after some investigation read that it was likely that assigning a drive letter A or B would preclude Windows from indexing anything on that drive (really, MS?).
So I reassigned it to D: and then G:, and Windows 10 still won't index ANYTHING on the drive. I've checked all permissions and properties to make sure they match those of other drives that Windows 10 successfully indexes. Especially, I made sure that the user "SYSTEM" had full control of the drive root and everything beneath. The only difference I see and cannot change is that the other drives are marked "ACTIVE" and presumably have a MBR from previous installations. My offending drive cannot be marked active, and I don't think this would affect indexing.
I've rebuilt the index, deleted the index, and rebooted, all many many times. I even copied a folder from the offending hard drive to another drive and Windows 10 spontaneously indexed the new files right away.
I'd rather not have to offload this large drive and reformat it.
Yesterday my boot drive failed with activated Windows 10. I bought the computer from a friend with no windows packaging or product key. I have since ordered a 850 evo to replace it but how will I activate Windows with no product key?Will I have to buy a new copy of Windows or will Microsoft give me a new product key?
View 1 RepliesI have a laptop that came with Windows 8.1. The hard drive failed and has been replaced with a new hard drive. If I want to install Windows 10 on this laptop, do I first need to install Windows 8.1. and then perform the upgrade to Windows 10, or can I just install Windows 10? Will Windows 10 use the Windows 8.1 license key in the BIOS to activate? Or will this not work unless I first install Windows 8.1. and then upgrade to Windows 10?
This computer has never had Windows 10 on it.
The computer has a new unformatted hard disk that has never had Windows 8.1. installed.
So i have 2 hard drives, one new and one beginning to die on me. I have windows on the dying hard drive, and do not have the original disks or product key. I tried using DriveImage XML to copy everything onto the new drive, but for some reason when it boots it says "Hard disk failure" when i have the just the new hard drive in there (i am 100% sure it is plugged in properly). I really dont have the money to buy a new windows disk, and so i was wondering if it would work if i were to factory reset my computer and have windows 10 reinstall on my new hard drive, or is there an easier way?
View 1 RepliesBasically, I plan to disconnect every other Drive from my computer (my 2nd SSD and the HDD I use for data storage). From there, I'd do a clean install of Windows 10 onto my SSD.
Will that SSD become my C Drive by default (I want it to)? Will is stay that way when I reconnect my other drives provided I continue to boot from my SSD?
I have a prebuilt computer that came with windows 8.1, it didn't come with an installation disc, or if it did i accidentally threw it away. So to find my windows product key i had to download magic jelly bean key finder. Now i right now have only a 500GB HDD, so i plan to add an SSD to run windows, and a few programs from. I don't want to copy the OS from my current drive over, i want to do a clean install of windows on the SSD. How would i do this?
View 1 RepliesI am currently running Windows 10 upgraded from Windows 8.1 Pro retail. Here's the deal: I am upgrading my system to Skylake, so obviously that means a new motherboard. I know if I want to directly install Win10, I have to get a new license ; but if I just reinstall my Win8.1, will I be able to perform the upgrade again ?
View 1 RepliesI had a pc failure, so i upgraded my motherboard and chip, as expected windows still booted from start with no issues, restarted to install lan driver, and when it fired up again i had the activate windows bottom right of screen, how do i fix this, I upgraded from win7.
View 10 RepliesSo my original motherboard (a G45 express chipset from 2007~) doesn't support overclocking, only supports LGA 775, and has a maximum of 300W. It needs replacing pronto. The thing is, the windows is a OEM copy, so the key is bound to the motherboard. Now I heard that if you phone up Microsoft and tell them that the old motherboard broke, and you bought a new one and now windows wont work, they often just give you a new code and disable your old code?
Will this still work in the windows 10 era? As soon as the old windows key is disabled will my current windows install just break? URL... So I just read that you swap the boards, install windows, and wait until it asks for the key