I haven't had a legit windows since XP mostly due to living in China for 5+ years. I've been running win10 since the consumer priview came out (day 1) and now it seems that I have win10 pro. I will be upgrading/downsizing to a skylake mITX build around mid september and I'm not clear on what will happen. I will carry over all my drives so will I have an issue when I connect this SSD to the new computer and want to do a fresh install? I'm not sure how this works. If I need to buy a copy of win10 I don't mind. I didn't buy win7 because it was not really feasible to due in China. I am a grad student at UoR and my fiance at UCL so we should be able to get a student copy but I've been unable to find any information on this thus far. Does anyone know more about this?
It's not clear yet, but looks like Win10 is tied to the motherboard if the original licence was an OEM licence, as in the past. It's likely that an HDD-> SSD upgrade would not be considered a 'new device' so you should be able to re-install. Lots of discussion here for info: http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/how-windows-10-will-handle-clean-installs
I didn't have an original licence as I got my win 7 in China and did a fresh install with win10 consumer preview. I will pop my SSD into my new system, I would like to do a fresh install after the October SR2 release. I was under the impression that for being a beta tester for win10 that we would get to keep it...
Sorry, but beta testers do not get to keep a free Windows 10 license. If you do a clean install, you'll have to break down and buy a legit copy.
Ok, I will keep an I out for a university discount seems I can get windows 8.1 for £9. Hopefully that will be replaced by windows 10 for £9 shortly!
My non genuine W7 ultimate updated and activated with no nagging to W10 pro today. seems Microsoft are allowing it.
