Getting Windows 10 License Upgrade on Linux Mint Laptop
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@Mike-Davis said in Getting Windows 10 License Upgrade on Linux Mint Laptop:
I upgraded 7 32bit to 10 and then wiped the machine and installed 64 bit Windows 10 and it prompted for the original Windows 7 key and installed and activated.
With the latest version you don't have to do that. You can clean install with a Win7/8 key.
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@BRRABill I was more concerned with if it would give you a hard time if you originally activated it with 32bit Windows and then tried to activate after installing 64 bit. I figured with so many of the drivers changing it might detect it was running on different hardware.
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@Mike-Davis said in Getting Windows 10 License Upgrade on Linux Mint Laptop:
@BRRABill I was more concerned with if it would give you a hard time if you originally activated it with 32bit Windows and then tried to activate after installing 64 bit. I figured with so many of the drivers changing it might detect it was running on different hardware.
Yeah, who knows what it is going to do...
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@BRRABill said in Getting Windows 10 License Upgrade on Linux Mint Laptop:
@Mike-Davis said in Getting Windows 10 License Upgrade on Linux Mint Laptop:
@BRRABill I was more concerned with if it would give you a hard time if you originally activated it with 32bit Windows and then tried to activate after installing 64 bit. I figured with so many of the drivers changing it might detect it was running on different hardware.
Yeah, who knows what it is going to do...
Well that worked. I also removed a stick of RAM and put in a SSD in place of the spinning disk of rust and it activated as well. Unfortunately with all hardware integrated in to the motherboard, that's about all I can swap out on this system. Oh well, it answers a couple questions.
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@Mike-Davis said
Well that worked. I also removed a stick of RAM and put in a SSD in place of the spinning disk of rust and it activated as well. Unfortunately with all hardware integrated in to the motherboard, that's about all I can swap out on this system. Oh well, it answers a couple questions.
When you did this, did it say it wasn't activated?
Or were you hoping it WAS activated?
I am still trying to figure out a way to "upgrade" all my Windows 8 FPP licenses to Windows 10, just so I have them when the time is right.
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@BRRABill said in Getting Windows 10 License Upgrade on Linux Mint Laptop:
@Mike-Davis said
Well that worked. I also removed a stick of RAM and put in a SSD in place of the spinning disk of rust and it activated as well. Unfortunately with all hardware integrated in to the motherboard, that's about all I can swap out on this system. Oh well, it answers a couple questions.
When you did this, did it say it wasn't activated?
Or were you hoping it WAS activated?
I am still trying to figure out a way to "upgrade" all my Windows 8 FPP licenses to Windows 10, just so I have them when the time is right.
It did activate. I could try the key on a totally different hardware platform, but I think others have done that and it failed.
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I'm about to do a full bare metal install
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@scottalanmiller said in Getting Windows 10 License Upgrade on Linux Mint Laptop:
I'm about to do a full bare metal install
Did you say goodbye to the rest of the family for the night?
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@travisdh1 said in Getting Windows 10 License Upgrade on Linux Mint Laptop:
@scottalanmiller said in Getting Windows 10 License Upgrade on Linux Mint Laptop:
I'm about to do a full bare metal install
Did you say goodbye to the rest of the family for the night?
The wife is off on a three day sorority bender... I mean retreat, for the weekend already.
