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So when the official Windows 10 release comes out i'm wondering if they'll provide an option to perform a clean reinstall. If so will my current product key from my Windows 8.1 install work with it?

 

I'm concerned about this because if you upgrade you'll keep your key but if you clean reinstall the Windows installer will most likely ask for a product key and i'm not sure if providing it with a product key originally intended for a different version of the OS will work or not. Any ideas what may happen or what i may need to do?

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So when the official Windows 10 release comes out i'm wondering if they'll provide an option to perform a clean reinstall. If so will my current product key from my Windows 8.1 install work with it?

 

I'm concerned about this because if you upgrade you'll keep your key but if you clean reinstall the Windows installer will most likely ask for a product key and i'm not sure if providing it with a product key originally intended for a different version of the OS will work or not. Any ideas what may happen or what i may need to do?

 

I'm sure there will be a way to clean install, and when you do, you simply skip the step with the product key, since only a key for that version will typically work.  Then once you get into the desktop you can enter your 8.1 key and it should accept it.

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Not sure how it will work but there will most likely be a clean install option somehow 

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I'm wondering the same thing, but unfortunately I don't think anyone will be able to do more than speculate right now.

 

In my opinion, the most likely way for this it work is that opting in to Windows 10 will update your product key to a Windows 10 key. If that's the case, clean installing should work as expected.

 

If not, you should still be able to do a clean install of Windows 8.1 and then immediately take the Windows 10 upgrade.

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I'm wondering the same thing, but unfortunately I don't think anyone will be able to do more than speculate right now.

 

In my opinion, the most likely way for this it work is that opting in to Windows 10 will update your product key to a Windows 10 key. If that's the case, clean installing should work as expected.

 

If not, you should still be able to do a clean install of Windows 8.1 and then immediately take the Windows 10 upgrade.

 

Yeah i doubt there would've been a definitive answer to this question but i was curious to see the ideas others had in mind. But if for whatever reason using my 8.1 key doesn't work i'll just clean reinstall windows 8.1 and do an upgrade from there.

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I believe when you upgrade, Microsoft will send you a key for Windows 10.

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