(August 2, 2015 at 6:04 pm)ignoramus Wrote: I didn't wait to get notified. I just dl'd the windows 10 as an iso and it installed perfectly.
I read you can do a clean install but only if the license version allows it.
As long as you enter the serial.
Eg: you can only do a clean install for an OEM license on the original hardware.
No enterprise, volume license, msdn, etc are acceptable.
Having said that, ages ago, I installed a windows 7 ultimate from one of my msdn available keys and it detected it as a retail win7 and upgraded fine. The iso dl was only 3 gig.
Yeah the licensing does seem to matter. The installer won't accept my volume license key if I try to do a fresh install, but the upgrade will. I have Windows 7 Home Premium OEM licenses for most of my hardware but I'm really not interested in trying a fresh install with them now that the upgrade to 10 Professional is complete, and I was only interested in trying a fresh install out of curiosity more than anything.