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Welp, my 6 year old hard drive died a slow death. I had stuck it into the freezer it to allow it to do it's self repairs, weeding out bad sector and such, which worked fine until the 500 gb slowly worked itself into about 300gb of usable space. Fine for me as all I do is internet and photos. even then I only had it 60% full.
Yesterday however it died. Virus, malware, old age? I am not sure.
So, keeping in mind I have to go cheap on the fix I want to replace the hard drive.
The issue I am having with this is my restore discs are an old version of windows 7.
I did the "free upgrade" to window 10 sometime within the last year and was using it just fine. I have no problems with it , in fact I prefer it now. This PC will operate fine with it.
My problem is something I noticed yesterday while trying to give this hard drive another kick. While doing a re image, a screen came up saying I was running an old version of windows 7. It directed me to a location to buy windows 10. Then the hard drive died again during the long list of updates. Internet explorer would not let me on the internet because it was such an outdated version.
So, my question.
If I buy a new hard drive and re-image it with my win7 system restore discs, will it allow me to upgrade to win 10 again or do I indeed need to purchase a license? Is there a good known workaround? If not, how much should I expect to pay for an upgrade from win 7 to win10?
I am not at all interested in learning-installing a different operating system, nor would I choose to buy an apple based product.
I appreciate input.
Yesterday however it died. Virus, malware, old age? I am not sure.
So, keeping in mind I have to go cheap on the fix I want to replace the hard drive.
The issue I am having with this is my restore discs are an old version of windows 7.
I did the "free upgrade" to window 10 sometime within the last year and was using it just fine. I have no problems with it , in fact I prefer it now. This PC will operate fine with it.
My problem is something I noticed yesterday while trying to give this hard drive another kick. While doing a re image, a screen came up saying I was running an old version of windows 7. It directed me to a location to buy windows 10. Then the hard drive died again during the long list of updates. Internet explorer would not let me on the internet because it was such an outdated version.
So, my question.
If I buy a new hard drive and re-image it with my win7 system restore discs, will it allow me to upgrade to win 10 again or do I indeed need to purchase a license? Is there a good known workaround? If not, how much should I expect to pay for an upgrade from win 7 to win10?
I am not at all interested in learning-installing a different operating system, nor would I choose to buy an apple based product.
I appreciate input.