Hi all! I got the upgrade icon in my win 7 system tray, but wanna wait until after 29 July to experiment with this new system. Is it possible to create the "digital entitlement" without the upgrade hassle not to loose the free upgrade? Only way I see to do it is to image my Win 7 setup, then do the upgrade and image it back again. Any easier way to do this? Thanks for any replies
Thanks for the replies. I need to make a backup anyway, so i'm gonna image my Win 7. If i'm not satisified with the 10 upgrade i'll roll back.
your right he can reserve a copy....and when is ready MS will send him the update. im not sure if he can still do that... were getting close the finish line for the free upgrade.
run gatherosstate and get GenuineTicket.xml and install on a partition fresh win 10 and put GenuineTicket.xml in right place and done
I'm doing the image with Acronis, so any roll-back deadline using MS software shouldn't be a problem.
No one, outside MS, knows. If you want to be sure, just deploy w10 on a native vhd put the ticket there in the right folder, and boot W10 once.
Ahh cool! Didn't know you could create virtual disks directly in Win 7. Awesome! Was a long time ago I felt the urge to play with VMware, but that wouldn't work as it has it's own "bios and hardware" and isn't native so to speak. First boot & validation is probably necessary before July 29 to get registered on MS servers as a free upgrade. After that this door is probably shut. Great, now I have something to do for a few hours
You can. Providing you use the old VHD format and not the new VHDX. Anyway You can also install W10 on a native VHD/VHDX directly from the Setup UI, it's just slower and more complicate than DISM /Apply-Image from W7. So I don't suggest it, especially for your case.
the question is will that XML hack work after july 29 i would not take any chances i would get it now while still here.
Safest solution to me would be to image your current system using Acronis, Macrium or whatever you are comfortable with. After the image, go ahead and let the Win7 system upgrade to 10 and boot it up once to make sure it shows it's activated. After that just wipe the drive and restore your original Win7 image. Am I missing anything?
After the genuineticket.xml is succesfully created, just do what T-S said by using a vhd or just unplug all current hdd/ssd's, plugin a spare hdd and install 10, apply the genuineticket.xml and when it says: activated by a "digital entitlement" (1511.x) or "Digital License" (1607), unplug it and re-connect the normal drives and you have a Digital License for the life of the hardware.