Windows 10: Can I Re-Install 1-PC Licensed Windows 10 Onto a Brand New Drive?

HELLO allLast year I installed Windows 10 onto an older, erased hard drive as I didn't have a newer, blank one yet. It was a sort of test to see if I could live with 10. When I want to boot from it, I use the boot menu. I now have a brand new 2TB hard drive and was planning on cloning that test Windows 10 drive to it. BUT I now find that because I goofed when formatting the old drive I used something called GPT instead of MBR, I can't clone it! And I can't change the format to MBR because there is data on the drive.AND SO I ASK, can I use my 1-PC install on the BRAND NEW DRIVE, or do I

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Installing Windows 10 on New PC?

I'm going to be building a new PC on Christmas and want to install Windows 10 on it. I have Windows 10 on my current PC, which I installed upgrading from 8.1 with the files on a USB. How do I go about installing a clean copy of Windows 10 on this new PC? I think I recall something about installing it once makes Microsoft recognize your hardware, but since this will be a PC I'm not sure what steps I need to take. Do I need to go 8.1 -> 10 or is there a method of going directly to 10?

 

Installing Windows 10 on New PC?

What's your intended PC specs ??

 

I'm trying to install windows 10 in new computer from USB drive.

I don't really understand what you're saying.

You have two options:

A) Have a previously licensed version of Windows 7 or 8 on a PC, run the GWX upgrade to Windows 10 (which then swaps your Windows 7/8 key to a Windows 10 license), then do a clean install and Microsoft will automatically license that PC provided the motherboard is installed.

B) Have a Windows 10 license, install Windows 10 on the PC as a clean install, and input that license.