Windows 7 to 10

[Seaford30]

Hi guys I have a question.

I have current got win7 on my HDD right now, I want to install a fresh copy of win10 on my new SHDD. How do I do it?

Thank you in advance

[TheRandomness]

You'd first install windows 7 onto your SSHD and then you'd upgrade from there.

 

Oh btw welcome to the forums @Seaford30 Please remember to follow your own threads.

[Nexxus]

do your upgrade to windows 10

MAKE SURE ITS ACTIVATED

 

from here you have 2 steps if you wanna do it the easy way, go into settings - update and security -  recovery - then lastly refresh this PC

 

This will more or less be a fresh windows install but it might have some lingering issues (for example I had permission issues on my windows 8 install I wanted to make sure were gone so I did the next option

 

Option 2 after your upgrade download this https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 and select "create installation media for another PC"

Make the installation media on a usb drive.

 

Restart the system and adjust your bios to boot from the usb drive as top priority then restart again

 

The windows installation media should start, follow along and delete the partitions/reformat the system drive (when doing this I unhook all buy my system drive just to be safe that I dont formate the wrong one) Then direct windows to install on the system drive

 

When it asks for a key and it will skip it, installation will proceed and eventually you will get to the desktop, when you are finally there attempting to activate it should work without an issue since a windows 10 license is now "bound" to that computer. (thus why making sure its activated after the upgrade is vital)

EDIT - I didnt see you were changing drives...ya to be safe I would do a fresh install of windows 7 on the secondary drive...you might be able to short cut it in the format/partition sections I mentioned above by just telling it to install on that drive...but I wouldn't risk it frankly.

[Constantin]

The best way to go is to make a fresh install directly to Win 10.

Download from Microsoft the equivalent version of you'r current windows and just put the activation key when needed.

[mstef]

I have current got win7 on my HDD right now, I want to install a fresh copy of win10 on my new SHDD. How do I do it?

Easy- just buy a W10 key and than install... Or just install W7 on new drive, upgrade to 10, activate it and than do a clean/fresh install... But you CAN'T keep both OS activated (W7 & W10) on separate drive without buying a W10 key. One key => one OS, no matter 7 or 10

[Seaford30]

I have a copy of windows 7, do I need to do anything to my old drive before (wiping the os?) Installing 7 on the new drive then upgrading it to 10?

[GoodBytes]

I have a copy of windows 7, do I need to do anything to my old drive before (wiping the os?) Installing 7 on the new drive then upgrading it to 10?

Backup all your stuff. And double check you have everything. Beside that, there is nothing to do. Plug your new drive, unplug the other, and install Windows 7. You don't need to do anything to the old drive. If you want to throw it away, then you definitely want to look into breaking it, or doing multi level format to remove any personal information, and not be recoverable, or you can use it in another system of yours.

If you want to keep the old drive as extra space on your system, once you have everything setup, plug it back in your system, with your new drive, start your system, and in Windows 10, format the old drive. Now it will be ready to use, blank drive.

[Sharp_3yE]

Hi guys I have a question.

I have current got win7 on my HDD right now, I want to install a fresh copy of win10 on my new SHDD. How do I do it?

Thank you in advance

First just do an upgrade and not fresh install. This is just to make sure that your device is activated first. Then after the upgrade fresh install. I suggest just trying out how the upgrade went first and use your PC. If you don't have any problems then you don't have to fresh install.