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So I took my laptop (a Lenovo Yoga 2 pro) in to best buy after it had water spilled on it. They said they'd fix it under warranty and I left it with them. A few days later I came to pick it up, but with only one problem. I gave them the laptop with windows ten as it was installed during the free upgrade period. I got the laptop back with windows 8. Best buy basically said tough titties and told me they couldn't do anything. Would I be able to install windows 10 to it with no problem, or would I have to buy a copy. I heard you can install it and use the windows 8 key it came with.
What does everyone think?
So far I know, you can activate and install Windows 10 with the key of your old Windows version only if it's the one with which you upgraded to Windows 10. However it could be also possible to use other keys according to this link. Here is also shown how to reinstall Windows 10.
How to reinstall Windows 10 with your old Windows 7/8/8.1 key
Anyway because it's Windows 10 you also have a digital license which is linked with your account. So it's also possible to reinstall Windows 10 without a product key requiring only to log in with your Microsoft account. You can read yourself, just scroll to the section where it's about how to activate after reinstallation.
How to: Windows 10 activation
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I bought a Win 10 Pro retail version. Installed it on a VM on computer #1. I want to move the VM to computer #2 for a few months, then I'll want to move it to computer #3. Can I do that license wise?
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Back story if anybody cares: My 4 year old Macbook Air was clinging to life by it's fingernails, it finally died. I bought Win 10 and installed it as VM on my Wife's newer Air. I just put a new logic board in my Old Air and want to move the Win 10 to it. If Apple ever actually releases the new Macbook Pros I'll be getting one of them and would like to transfer the VM and license a 3rd time... :)
yes you can do this licence wise so long as you never have it installed on one computer at once, the windows 10 licence agreement states that you may move it from one machine to another as long as it is never installed on more than one at once.
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I want to ask, if I format my computer (currently running windows10 genuine) and use some other OS for a while and then again install windows10, will I be able to reactivate my windows with the same key which is working currently on my pc ?
That should work just fine, provided you can install the same version. A key for Home won't work on Pro and vice versa, and there are also OEM versions and Volume License versions, so make sure which exact version you have.
If you have an installation CD or an ISO for the right edition (the one you have the key for) you'll be fine. You can re-install from that CD multiple times.
If Windows came preinstalled, you'd better make an image of the hard drive which you can restore later.
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I bouth laptop with pre-installed windows 8.1 a half year ago.
I copied license key and erased the system.
I installed windows 10 and I want to activate it with my key, but it does not accept it.
Is there any way to convert the key?
Because I do not want to install windows 8.1 with my key and then upgrade to windows 10.
You can't do this unfortunately.
You will have to re-install Windows 8.1, then upgrade to Windows 10, then use the Reset Process in Windows 10 for a clean install.
To reset your Windows 10 PC, open the Settings app, select Update & security, select Recovery, and click the “Get started” button under Reset this PC. Select “Remove everything.” This will wipe all your files, so be sure you have backups.
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I don't understand that StackExchange, where I can post question about computers, so I think, this will be good.
Friend of mine wanted to reinstall windows and clear everything. He had windows XP. He don't know a lot of computers, so I decided, I will do that. I took his HDD to home and connected to my computer. Installation of windows XP started and everything worked well.
But when I bring HDD back to his computer and connected it, all I get after start computer is that (picture bellow). It is something like cursor, flashing on screen and never end. Does someone know, what could went wrong, when that worked well in my PC and its same windows, which he had before? (Sorry for bad english)
Windows is configured based on the hardware underneath. Installing windows in one system and then placing the HDD in another usually does not work. Use a Bootable USB to install Windows in the system as the DVD Drive isn't functional.
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I have two HDs in my Macbook Pro 15 in late 2009. I installed bootcamp and updated to Mavericks. My Windows partition in running Win7 Ultimate. I set the the boot disk in OSX to be my windows partition and now my laptop doesn't recognize me holding down the option key to choose which partition to boot. When windows boots i have to start the on screen keyboard and then close it for my keyboard presses to be recognized. The quote key causes the option and control keys to stick and delete doesn't work at all. I would use the bootcamp panel to switch back but it didn't install. i would really appreciate any help because i'm behind in my web dev projects and don't want to reinstall OSX because i'll lose my data, plus i took out the disc drive for my other HD.
You should try reseting PRAM.
If it not helps than probably some key are stuck and it cause other keys don't work.
Try to find and fix broken key by using this or this manual.
If it not helps, than it probably hardware keyboard problem.