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Hello I am wondering which is the way to go. I have windows 10 on a 250 gig SD drive which was upgraded from 7, then I have a 670gig drive with win 7 (I cloned 7 before upgrading) My question is can I install a clean version of 10 dual booting on the HD with the win 7 (670gig drive). Will I have licensing issues with 10?
My pc only allows me to use 2 HD's... My thoughts were I could have windows 7/10 on one drive and mate/mint on another drive which I already have.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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If that Windows 7 licence was upgraded to Windows 10, then yes, you will run into a issue, because you cannot use that windows 7 licence key again, unless you roll back from Windows 10 to 7.
Upgrading to Windows 10 does not give you a free Windows 10 licence, so you can still use Windows 7 licence.
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04-08-2016, 05:51 PM
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you are right Upgrading to Windows 10 does not give you a free Windows 10 licence, so you can still use Windows 7 licence.
but your windows 7 key is being used as a windows 10 now long as that windows 7 key is being used on a windows 10 operating system you can, t use that key on a next windows 7 operating system
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But that would then be piracy and we can't help support that or condone piracy on these forums for legal reasons. hope you understand.
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