Win10 install straight away with Win7 key or Win7 first and then upgrade?

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Andre2

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Hello,
because of a failed Win7 installation on HDD I bought an SSD.
How to set up the new system? I have Win7 and a Win7 key.

Shall I:
1. Install Win7 and then upgrade to WIn10?
or
2. Can I go to Win10 with my Win7 key straight away?
 
Wow. So much friendly help and no trolling yet. Who would have believed such a place exists on the internets. :-)

I used Windows media creation tool.
I don´t wanted to use my existing USB Sticks. They kind of where tailored to purposes.

First try:
I had an adapter from SD card to USB. It was fed mith a micro SD card.

So basically: 8G Micro SD card < adapter from Micro SD card to SD card < adapter from SD card to USB.
It appears messy, right? =) Dont worry it gets more messy before it gets better.
But this solution was considered usable by Windows media creation tool.

When this messy solution was at ~99% finished in Windows media creation tool, my backup desktop PC shut down, because of overheating.
I fixed that overheating issue.

2nd try:
Then I restarted the boot device creation with Mr. Messy bootstick. BTW this process takes about 2 h with my i-net connection.
This time it finished.
But the barren laptop could not boot from this improvised messy stick. I counterchecked with a Win7 installation boot stick. This one worked.

3rd try:
So I overcame my lazyness and cleared a USB stick.
From this one, right now, Win10 is installing.
 
Win10 is running now. Actually with the SSD this was the smoothest Win install in 25 years.
I only had to find out, if I want a Microsoft account or not, via a search engine.
Now starts the process of getting everything else in place.

Quick start menu,
browsers,
cloud storage,
software
and so on.
 
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Glad everything worked out. For anyone else considering these options, it's more than 2X faster when not reinstalling 7 and then upgrading.
 
Corday said:
it's more than 2X faster when not reinstalling 7 and then upgrading.
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Yep. If you have a Win7 key that you can provide during a Windows 10 install, it will take it.

That being said, I can't count the number of in-place Win7-to-Win10 upgrades I've done and I think I've had one, maybe two, not go perfectly. So while I'd never do a completely clean install of Windows 7 then upgrade to Windows 10, I would not (and do not) hesitate to do an in-place upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. They almost always work just fine and it saves a lot of work reinstalling programs you have been using and reloading data from a backup.
 
Andre2 said:
if I try to upgrade the Win7 HDD with issues to Win10
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If the drive itself has issues, which is easy to check, then chuck it!

A HDD in the process of failure, even early in the process, is like quicksand. You cannot build a sound structure on top of it.
 

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