When you upgrade, you’ll stay on like-to-like editions of Windows. Here’s what Microsoft says about the free-of-charge upgrade paths. In fact, you can install the Win 10 Pro version on a PC which runs Win 7 Home, but you’ll have to pay $199 for a 10 Pro product key. This is important due to licencing, since you aren’t eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10 Pro if your machine is running Windows 7 Home for instance. For instance, if you want to use the drive to upgrade your Windows 7 Home OS-based laptop by installing Windows 10 on a separate clean hard drive partition, you have to choose Windows 10 Home from the drop-down menu. Selecting the correct Windows 10 edition is crucial. Now you can select language, Windows edition, and architecture you want to create an installation drive for. Choose the latter option and click the Next button. Find the file named MediaCreationToolx32.exe (32-bit) or MediaCreationTool圆4.exe (64-bit) and run it.Ī blue Windows 10 Setup window will appear, aking what do you want to do – “Upgrade this PC now” or “Create installation media for another PC”. Go to the folder where your copy of Creation Tool is downloaded. You can check whether your computer is 32- or 64-bit in System section of Control Panel.Ĭlick on one of the links and the Tool will be downloaded. Choose one of them, depending on system architecture (32-bit or 64-bit) of your PC. On the bottom of the webpage, there are links for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows PC versions of the Tool. It’s available on Microsoft’s official website. In this easy step-by-step guide, we’ll make a bootable Windows 10 USB stick.įirst, you have to download Media Creation Tool.
You can use them for upgrades of existing Windows 7 and 8.1 installations on your computer, too. With a bootable USB Flash (or DVD) you can install Windows 10 on an empty storage partition of your laptop, tablet, or any other PC which meets Win 10 hardware requirements. You can do that with Media Creation Tool software in a few steps.
Microsoft has made creation of bootable Windows 10 installation media quite easy. Although you can upgrade your Windows 7 or 8.1 OS to Windows 10 without help of a bootable USB Flash drive, creating one is a must if you want to do a “clean installation” of Microsoft’s latest OS on an empty hard drive partition.
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