Win 10 pro upgrade not activating

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Hi all

Just wanted to find out if anybody manage to activate win 10 with win 7 mak key?

Here is my problem, was on win 7 pro 32bit, and due to not having enough space for a 20+gig windows.old folder and upgrading to 64bit,

Didn't go the upgrade path,

Did clean install of win 10 and can't activate now, tried online, tried telephonic,
Said win 10 not verified, spoke to a dude in India said Ms is having issues with activations from w7 advised me to downgrade,activate w7 and then run upgrade to 10

Can't really do that as I'm moving to 64 bit and not enough disk space for win.old

What other options can i try?
 
Hi, you can't upgrade from 32bit to 64bit, you will need to do a clean install.

Clean install Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit, then activate.
Then run the ISO and do an upgrade to Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit.

Hopefully after a clean install you will have enough free space.
 
LinuxMan said:
Hi, you can't upgrade from 32bit to 64bit, you will need to do a clean install.

Clean install Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit, then activate.
Then run the ISO and do an upgrade to Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit.

Hopefully after a clean install you will have enough free space.
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That's what i thought, don't though have a win 7 64bit disk,
Any other way round that?

How long do i have until win 10 shuts down with its non genuine software stories?
 
If you want to make use of the free upgrade you'll have to do the update, then do a clean install if you wish. Windows 7 keys dont work on Windows 10 and I'm not sure why you think they would.

Also there is no difference wrt activations on different architectures.
 
mstaylor said:
If you want to make use of the free upgrade you'll have to do the update, then do a clean install if you wish. Windows 7 keys dont work on Windows 10 and I'm not sure why you think they would.

Also there is no difference wrt activations on different architectures.
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I'm not so sure then, as i initially tried doing the upgrade, said can't as its 32bit,
Leaving me no other options but clean install

If it did work that be great, but being on 32 bit didn't help matters here.

Also you say i can't use win7 keys? How come?
Aren't they saying anybody who has 7 can upgrade? Is it only via upgrade process?

So i need to get a hold of win 10 keys then if i don't want to downgrade and upgrade via update?
 
eg2505 said:
I'm not so sure then, as i initially tried doing the upgrade, said can't as its 32bit,
Leaving me no other options but clean install

If it did work that be great, but being on 32 bit didn't help matters here.

Also you say i can't use win7 keys? How come?
Aren't they saying anybody who has 7 can upgrade? Is it only via upgrade process?

So i need to get a hold of win 10 keys then if i don't want to downgrade and upgrade via update?
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Upgrade via Update and your device HWID is added to a registered list so it's a keyless activation every install. But this ONLY happens if you've upgraded to Windows 10.

Just install a Windows 7 iso, activate it, upgrade, then reinstall Windows 10.
 
I'm not too sure how long you have on 10 until you prompted to activate.
Given the fact it is a clean install with no key or upgrade path.

Anyone know?
eg2505 said:
That's what i thought, don't though have a win 7 64bit disk,
Any other way round that?

How long do i have until win 10 shuts down with its non genuine software stories?
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eg2505 said:
I'm not so sure then, as i initially tried doing the upgrade, said can't as its 32bit,
Leaving me no other options but clean install

If it did work that be great, but being on 32 bit didn't help matters here.

Also you say i can't use win7 keys? How come?
Aren't they saying anybody who has 7 can upgrade? Is it only via upgrade process?

So i need to get a hold of win 10 keys then if i don't want to downgrade and upgrade via update?
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You need to first upgrade from Win 7 32-bit to Win 10 32-bit. Make certain that Win 10 32-bit is activated. Once activated, determine the Win 10 product key. (You might not need any key if Windows is activated and your hardware hasn't changed.) Then use the 32-bit Media Creation Tool to download a Win 10 64-bit ISO. Then do a fresh (clean) install of Win 10 64-bit.

Refer to this wiki article - the guy who wrote it is clued up...
How to: Switch from 32 bit versions of Windows to Windows 10 64 bit

mstaylor said:
Upgrade via Update and your device HWID is added to a registered list so it's a keyless activation every install. But this ONLY happens if you've upgraded to Windows 10.

Just install a Windows 7 iso, activate it, upgrade, then reinstall Windows 10.
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or install windows 7 64x, activate with his key, upgrade to 10 64x and then if needed do a clean installer / refresh and keep nothing

Jim West said:
You need to first upgrade from Win 7 32-bit to Win 10 32-bit. Make certain that Win 10 32-bit is activated. Once activated, determine the Win 10 product key. (You might not need any key if Windows is activated and your hardware hasn't changed.) Then use the 32-bit Media Creation Tool to download a Win 10 64-bit ISO. Then do a fresh (clean) install of Win 10 64-bit.

Refer to this wiki article - the guy who wrote it is clued up...
How to: Switch from 32 bit versions of Windows to Windows 10 64 bit



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Necuno said:
[...] or install windows 7 64x, activate with his key, upgrade to 10 64x and then if needed do a clean installer / refresh and keep nothing
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That should work as well, considering that disk space is limited. (The OP must have a tiny disk - SSD perhaps. Otherwise space should be freed up on disk.)
 
Ok so i need to get a hold of 7 64 bit
Question remains with a 100gb drive, will i be able to upgrade?

And how long do i actually have, in its current unactive state?
 
eg2505 said:
Ok so i need to get a hold of 7 64 bit
Question remains with a 100gb drive, will i be able to upgrade?

And how long do i actually have, in its current unactive state?
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I already posted the link for you to get hold of it, it's a legit link

My fresh (did it Saturday) and updated Windows Home Premium 64-bit Windows folder install is 20.3GB big. I'm sure you'll be fine.
 
supersunbird said:
I already posted the link for you to get hold of it, it's a legit link

My fresh (did it Saturday) and updated Windows Home Premium 64-bit Windows folder install is 20.3GB big. I'm sure you'll be fine.
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Had win 7 pro before,

Will the link work for me as well? And is there no other way besides buying a win 10 key online?
 
eg2505 said:
Ok so i need to get a hold of 7 64 bit
Question remains with a 100gb drive, will i be able to upgrade?

And how long do i actually have, in its current unactive state?
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A 100 Gb drive should be large enough for the Win 10 64-bit upgrade if you have little to no software installed. I'm not certain how long you have to activate, but I wouldn't think there'll be a problem.

Whether your existing product key for Win 7 32-bit will activate Win 7 64-bit depends on what type of Win 7 you had. If it was OEM (i.e., not a retail version) and specific for Win 7 32-bit, it might not activate 64-bit. All you can do is give it a try.
 
eg2505 said:
Had win 7 pro before,

Will the link work for me as well? And is there no other way besides buying a win 10 key online?
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Did you even bother to click on the link? It has Windows 7 versions to your hearts content sourced from the now dead Digital River site which was how MS distributed 7 till recently.

Took me a few hours to download the iso, and a minute to download and install the USB install tool and then a few minutes to make a bootable USB flash drive and set my BIOS to boot from USB, 15 minutes later I had Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1 installed.

Hope you're not like this in your car threads...

Download Windows 7 torrent

To download Windows 7 using a torrent file, we will need a torrent client. In the example, we will be using the popular torrent client qBittorrent.



download windows 7 legaly torrent 01

Any torrent client will work, though, such as uTorrent / μTorrent or BitComet. So, if you already have a torrent client, you don't need to install qBittorrent.

So, we only need to download our preferred version's torrent file:
•Windows 7 Home Premium x86 (32bit) SP1
MD5 Checksum: 0afa9359c62dc7b320205d3863c60385
SHA-1 Hash: 6071b4553fcf0ea53d589a846b5ae76743dd68fc
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•Windows 7 Home Premium x64 (64bit) SP1
MD5 Checksum: da319b5826162829c436306bebea7f0f
SHA-1 Hash: 6c9058389c1e2e5122b7c933275f963edf1c07b9
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•Windows 7 Starter x86 (32bit) SP1
MD5 Checksum: c23c9cecee7e3093acfe00faab7091b5
SHA-1 Hash: e1653b111c4c6fd75b1be8f9b4c9bcbb0b39b209
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•Windows 7 Professional x64 (64bit) SP1
MD5 Checksum: ed15956fe33c13642a6d2cb2c7aa9749
SHA-1 Hash: 0bcfc54019ea175b1ee51f6d2b207a3d14dd2b58
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•Windows 7 Professional x86 (32bit) SP1
MD5 Checksum: 0bff99c8310ba12a9136e3d23606f3d4
SHA-1 Hash: d89937df3a9bc2ec1a1486195fd308cd3dade928
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•Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (64bit) SP1
MD5 Checksum: c9f7ecb768acb82daacf5030e14b271e
SHA-1 Hash: 36ae90defbad9d9539e649b193ae573b77a71c83
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•Windows 7 Ultimate x86 (32bit) SP1
MD5 Checksum: 2572274e6b0acf4ed1b502b175f2c2db
SHA-1 Hash: 65fce0f445d9bf7e78e43f17e441e08c63722657
Click to expand...
 
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