Windows 10: Free Windows 10 Copy

Please make an image of your system BEFORE you upgrade. If you are unsure how just ask and you shall receive.

 

Where is that? Is that this? If so that is a link to the ISO download and I already have the download. Installing Windows 10 using the media creation tool - Windows Help
The problem is that I don't have a serial number except for the insider preview.

 

When you first run that Media Creation Tool that you linked to, one of the first options will be "Upgrade this PC now". That is the most reliable method people have used to upgrade. Re-run that same Media Creation Tool and pick that option.

Or, you can mount the ISO that you downloaded (or burn it to a DVD or make a USB flash drive with it) and run setup.exe from it. Don't boot from it! That will result in a clean install and not an upgrade. Just insert it in the running OS and run setup.exe from it.

Before upgrading, I would make a backup image of your currently running OS using Macrium Reflect, but you will need either a second internal hard drive or an external USB hard drive for that.

 

That is not a download for a tool but for the ISO so please explain how I get the tool that you mentioned. The problem is that I don't have a serial number for 10 RTM. Is one required?

 

To upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10, no serial number is required. After you get a successful upgrade and Windows 10 is activated, you do not need a serial number to do a later clean install on the same computer.

Installing Windows 10 using the media creation tool - Windows Help


Click on Show All below the grey "Note" box on the webpage and follow the directions step by step ending with step #2 under "Run the tool": "If you're upgrading this PC, select Upgrade this PC now, and then follow the instructions to finish the upgrade."

 

Again the download link is for the ISO. Where is the tool?

 

Installing Windows 10 using the media creation tool - Windows Help


Seriously? The webpage says "Download the tool".

Does it say ISO? NO. It says tool. Click on that and step #1 that appears under it:
1. Find the media creation tool on the Software download page.

Again, does it say ISO? NO. It says tool. Click on Software download page.
Windows 10

There are two purple download boxes. They say:
Download Tool Now (32-bit version)
Download Tool Now (64-bit version)

Do they say ISO? NO. They say tool. Click on the appropriate purple box, and run the TOOL that it downloads and one of the first options you will be presented with will be "Upgrade this PC now".

 

I click on the software download page and it pulls up the ISO download but that is from my mac. I pulled it up from Windows I get the tool download. That was my confusion. :/

 

Hmmm.... that's interesting. Sorry to be so blunt about it earlier. I wonder if a clearing of the internet cache on the Mac would change it?

 

It is likely looking at the OS and deciding where to send you based on that.