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I have a Dell Inspiron and the motherboard just died. It came with Windows 7 but I upgraded to 10 a few months back. Since I have to replace the motherboard I want to replace the mb, cpu, memory and upgrade my OS drive to SSD (data is on a separate drive)
I know that through Win 7 when it was a Dell machine you needed to use the Dell specific install disk. I have the Win 7 (Dell) install disk and the install key for it but I have a feeling that the install is going to fail due to the fact that I am using a dell key on a fresh non Dell machine, which is what it will be after the new MB etc is installed.
So my question is this: What is my best path to get back to Windows 10? Start with the Win 7 install (and if so is there a way to keep Windows from freaking out about using a Dell key on a now non-Dell machine) or is there any way to go straight to Win 10 without purchasing it? I also have a Non-Dell Win 7 all versions disc