Cheap way to install Windows 11?

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Valnar

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I have a variety of PC's at my house running Windows 10 and many came from Win7 or 8.1, via upgrades. Now I'm building a Windows 11 PC brand new from parts... Is there a way to use one of those licenses to get me Windows 11? Or is there a cheap <$200 way to buy Windows 11 Pro? The catch is I want this to be a clean install, not go through various OS upgrades.
 
Valnar said:
I have a variety of PC's at my house running Windows 10 and many came from Win7 or 8.1, via upgrades. Now I'm building a Windows 11 PC brand new from parts... Is there a way to use one of those licenses to get me Windows 11? Or is there a cheap <$200 way to buy Windows 11 Pro? The catch is I want this to be a clean install, not go through various OS upgrades.
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You need to install win 10 first, then upgrade I think. It's perfectly fine to do it that way, no junk left over from an upgrade like the old days.
 
Know a guy who has purchased many Windows and Windows Server keys from g2a.com without issue. Same guy also acquired keys from folks in the for sale area of [H]. Would not recommend selling a machine with one of those keys on it. Haven't heard of any issues.
 
I really dont know why they dont give Windows Home away for free now and just charge $10 for Pro. I've not had to buy a copy of Windows since Windows 8 first came out.
 
daglesj said:
I really dont know why they dont give Windows Home away for free now and just charge $10 for Pro. I've not had to buy a copy of Windows since Windows 8 first came out.
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When product is free, you're the product...
 
I am getting better with linux but mint makes it a lot easier. Win 11 games only system.
 
Pick a donor machine, back it up, switch to a microsoft account, make sure activation says 'digital license connected to a microsoft account', transplant the hard drive into the new pc, reboot and check activation until it yells at you, in troubleshooting login to microsoft and select the name of the donor pc, reboot a couple more times for luck. Now you can move the drive back into the donor pc, and restore the backup if it won't let you switch back to a local account, install your new drive in the new pc and it shouldn't ask you for a key.
 
I've just finished building a new rig yesterday and fired it up. I've been transferring the Win license since the 2500k build which I initially bought on the FS section for cheap...
Looks like this time around is just $119 for the Home version because I am still planning to use the old PC unless I can keep running un-activated?
 
hmz said:
I've just finished building a new rig yesterday and fired it up. I've been transferring the Win license since the 2500k build which I initially bought on the FS section for cheap...
Looks like this time around is just $119 for the Home version because I am still planning to use the old PC unless I can keep running un-activated?
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find yourself an old 7/8 key and feed it that during install, old oem systems all have a key on the case...
 
hmz said:
Looks like I can use the Win10 key from my NUC
Will that work?
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probably. most oems use a volume license key to install and the sticker is just meet MS's requirements. when installing, dont connect your network cable/wifi, feed it the key and it should take it just fine. once windows it up and running, connect you network and it should auto-activate itself.
 
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