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Author Topic: Installing Win10 on new PC.  (Read 1952 times)

Bowdon

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Installing Win10 on new PC.
« on: August 14, 2015, 07:50:00 PM »
At some point I'm planning to buy a new PC soon, and I've noticed they sell the PC without an OS.

I've been downloading the windows 10 .iso image recently. If I was to burn this image on to a bootable DVD. What would happen if I tried to boot it on to the new PC? I'm assuming its going to cost me money to activate it. How much would MS charge to activate Win10?
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AArdvark

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Re: Installing Win10 on new PC.
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2015, 10:57:29 PM »
Why go to that trouble, when the install will not activate anyway.
I am sure you could get a copy of win7 or win8.1 cheaper than Win10. (eBay or amazon etc)
Then you can do a minimal install and get the 'Free' upgrade.
I am sure it would be cheaper than paying for a Win10 copy on disk with Serial or whatever they supply now.

(Beware of dodgy s/w being sold including recovery disks being sold as cheap Win7 or Win8 disks, which will not work on anything other than the original hardware.)

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