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I have an laptop that I like to take to college, to friends to play games, etc. It's getting on a bit now and is starting to feel sluggish. The main limiting factor seems to be disk speed/use so I'm looking at replacing the HDD with an SSD.
What I want to know, will I be able to use my existing Windows copy on the new drive? It was originaly a OEM Windows 7 (no install disc) but I recently did an upgrade to Windows 10.
I've got a flash drive that i created using the MS Media Creation Tool with the right version of Windows (10 64bit Home) so will it just be a matter of installing from that? But what product key should I enter?
And how will Microsoft know that I'm not just installing it on a completly different system?
It will have zero effect on your license or activation status – Ramhound – 2015-11-02T21:13:34.877
My problem is I have no way to install Win7 on the SSD and therefore can't do an in-place upgrade to Win 10. – Christy James – 2015-11-02T21:15:31.167