Windows 10: Win 10 from upgrade and hard drive change

Discus and support Win 10 from upgrade and hard drive change in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; I have a laptop which has preinstalled win 7 on it. I upgraded to win 10 via free upgrade program and now want to change my hard drive. Question is... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by JakubWdowik, Sep 4, 2020.

  1. JAKUBWDOWIK
    JakubWdowik Win User

    Win 10 from upgrade and hard drive change


    I have a laptop which has preinstalled win 7 on it. I upgraded to win 10 via free upgrade program and now want to change my hard drive. Question is will i be able to go back to win 10? and other one is howa can I create bootable usb flash disk if I can't download win7 iso copy from windows site since when i enter product key it's saying that i have preinstalled copy and i can't download one from site.

    :)
     
    JakubWdowik, Sep 4, 2020
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  2. CROWNELE
    crownele Win User

    Hard drives listed as SSD drives

    Upgraded to Win 10 Pro from Win 7 Pro.

    Have 2 Hard drives in Raid 1 set up.

    Win 10 lists these drives as SSD drives in System Properties.

    How do I change the listing of these drives to HD so I can optimize them?
     
    crownele, Sep 4, 2020
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  3. LEGOMAN1
    legoman1 Win User
    Hard Drive Fail after Win 10 upgrade

    After upgrading to Win 10 through the free option, my hard drive failed. From what I read on this forum, I can obtain a new ISO copy to re-install on my new HD. The problem though is that my backup is on a Seagate Free Agent Drive that is not compatible
    with Win 10. My problem is how do I recover my data on the Free Agent. Seagate does not have a driver or updated software to work with Win 10. My computer had Vista on it which was upgrade to Win 7 Home via a purchased copy of an upgrade, From there I upgraded
    to Win 10 via the free download. How should I proceed: re-install Win 10 and go from there or reinstall Vista then upgrade it to Win 7 and then recover data from Free Agent and then upgrade to Win 10? A dilemma for sure?? Any suggestions would be GREATLY
    appreciated!

    Thanks,
     
    legoman1, Sep 4, 2020
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  4. TERRANCEHADLEY
    terrancehadley Win User

    Win 10 from upgrade and hard drive change

    hard drive change

    im about to upgrade my hard drive in win 10 to a larger one what do i need to do if the change knocks my product key out assuming a hard drive is a major change like a motherboard
     
    terrancehadley, Sep 4, 2020
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