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Buying a Laptop - Do I need Windows 10 with it? (Have a Windows 8 disk)

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 2015-10-05 17:54:55

I'm looking at a laptop to buy, and if I buy it without an OS it'll save me over €100. I already own a copy of Windows 8 which I was using on my desktop. I have since upgraded to Windows 10 on this PC and I was wondering can I use my Windows 8 disc on another system and just upgrade with that?

05-10-2015 5:54pm

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I'm looking at a laptop to buy, and if I buy it without an OS it'll save me over €100.

I already own a copy of Windows 8 which I was using on my desktop. I have since upgraded to Windows 10 on this PC and I was wondering can I use my Windows 8 disc on another system and just upgrade with that?

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Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

I'm looking at a laptop to buy, and if I buy it without an OS it'll save me over €100.

I already own a copy of Windows 8 which I was using on my desktop. I have since upgraded to Windows 10 on this PC and I was wondering can I use my Windows 8 disc on another system and just upgrade with that?

No...

I suspect the "Licence" that you have is OEM and is tied to the hardware...

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