Rig upgrade windows 10 question!

[Joey96]

Hey guys!

 

So I'm soon going to upgrade my rig, with a new motherboard, cpu and ram. So I was wondering how the Windows 10 activation would work? I had a Windows 8 key and got the free upgrade from windows, I've read about linking the license key to your windows account, but does this also apply if I got the free Windows 10 upgrade?

 

Another thing is, what do I do when I've got everything hooked up in my new rig? Since windows 10 is already on my harddisk should it just start up without problems? Or would the best way be formatting my harddrives and install windows from a USB? 

 

Thanks for helping out!

[thebrownieguy]

Wasn't the free upgrade only last year untill like june? I think thats over now..?

[Joey96]

2 minutes ago, thebrownieguy said:

Wasn't the free upgrade only last year untill like june? I think thats over now..?

Yeah but in my current rig, I got the free windows upgrade from last year, so what I'm wondering is, if linking it to my account, and activating it on a new pc, if it would be windows 8 or 10? 

[Eredian]

I don't know how it works but I bought windows 8.1 when W10 was a free upgrade and upgraded to W10. Recently I upgraded my PC and I just used the W10 ISO and used the 8.1 key and it worked flawlessly.

[thebrownieguy]

9 minutes ago, Joey96 said:

Yeah but in my current rig, I got the free windows upgrade from last year, so what I'm wondering is, if linking it to my account, and activating it on a new pc, if it would be windows 8 or 10? 

Good pointy but idk.. You could just try?

[Joey96]

7 minutes ago, Eredian said:

I don't know how it works but I bought windows 8.1 when W10 was a free upgrade and upgraded to W10. Recently I upgraded my PC and I just used the W10 ISO and used the 8.1 key and it worked flawlessly.

Hmmmm sounds like it might work then Did you use the link account method or just putting in your license key?

[Joey96]

7 minutes ago, thebrownieguy said:

Good pointy but idk.. You could just try?

Problem is, I don't want my Kaby Lake rig running on a windows 8 OS, since microsoft won't support the kaby lake + older OS. So if that's the case, I have to put more into my budget for windows 10, so yeah  

[thebrownieguy]

Just now, Joey96 said:

Problem is, I don't want my Kaby Lake rig running on a windows 8 OS, since microsoft won't support the kaby lake + older OS. So if that's the case, I have to put more into my budget for windows 10, so yeah  

Just buy a code from internet for $30, thats the best way to fix it.

[Maxinfamily]

Ask the microsofts officail support team. https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb Send a ticket to them if you dont find a thread with the same question.

[Eredian]

11 minutes ago, Joey96 said:

Hmmmm sounds like it might work then Did you use the link account method or just putting in your license key?

I'm pretty sure I didn't link but don't quote me on that.