installation window 10 on a hard drive not a solid, one State

go pc not mac using window 7 install what to buy window 10 and do a full. look to see are back window 10 still come on a disc is there download a flash Pen. the other issue is if I format the hard drive to Windows 7 would I have trouble to install window 10 on that

Hi Wayne,

Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

If you have a genuine copy of Windows 7 installed on your system, you can now install Windows 10 for free. You need not not to purchase a license. In this case, you can improve your current PC to Windows 10 by going to the Windows 10 software download page to download the media creation tool. The media authoring tool can be used to create a USB or DVD media to upgrade your current PC to Windows 10 or install Windows 10 on another PC.

Follow the instructions on the download page of Windows 10 software: http://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10

Note:

When upgrading to Windows 10 using media, you must run setup.exe from in your version of Windows 7 or Windows 8 and authentic. If you want to boot from media, you must have upgraded to Windows 10 previously. Boot 10 Windows media directly without upgrading to Windows 10 previously is not supported and will have problems with activation.

Hope this information is useful. Let us know if you need more help, we will be happy to help you.

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