I need to upgrade Windows 7 with a legit key to Windows 10. However, a little sidewinder; I don't have a spare Windows 7 partition. I want my install of 7 to stay 7 and I want to upgrade another partition to 10. Long ago, there used to be a way to get the required files from the Windows 7 OS for registration then do some magic commands and it would register 10. I certainly don't want to upgrade on this partition. Want this Win 10 to be totally fresh. The only way I can see getting a digital license if this old way is gone: Clone a win7 hd, upgrade, get the digital license, wipe the hard drive, put the clone of windows 7 back on, install 10 from USB as dual boot.
@abuttino Your end goal can be easily achieved by any HWID activator without going through the whole cloning and restoring saga. There is a small caveat, though: We don't support such activation tools here. Just search for "massgravel+github" on Google and you're good to go.
juste clean install windows 10 and use hwid activator like massgravel ( similar to windows 7 upgraded to windows 10 ) or use windows 7 key on windows 10 ( or 11 , windows 7 key works on windows 11 )
Where do you think tenforums got that info from? https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...g-through-the-complete-upgrade-process.64770/ And this info should make the (not working for very modern hardware because of lacking network and other hardware support for 7) old workaround obsolete, the HWID tool mentioned was developed here on MDL up to a point it got to real and the admins rejected it here: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/manual-win-7-to-10-upgrade.87451/#post-1806047