My W10 ISO image won't accept my product key

I made a W10 ISO back in Dec 2015 with the understanding I could use it as and when I wanted to. The MS web page I used at the time told me this would be OK because I was doing it before the 2016 cut off and I could upgrade 'later' with that ISO.


The ISO works fine and I've extracted it to a folder on my C drive. I double-click 'setup' and put my W7 product key in (the only one I've got) but it won't accept it.


Many thanks for your help.

Hi, yes it's a W7 key from a retail version that came in the usual card envelope etc.


I'm currently running W7 on this machine and I wan't to UPgrade to W10.

You should download the latest ISO free from Microsoft and just upgrade your win7 as long as it's activated it won't ask for a key your ISO is way out of date

samuria said:

You should download the latest ISO free from Microsoft and just upgrade your win7 as long as it's activated it won't ask for a key your ISO is way out of date

Yes I've just been reading some other web pages and downloaded a new ISO. Fingers crossed.


I'm using this tutorial here.

Thanks for everyone's replies.


I managed to install W10 no problem at all after downloading the newest ISO.


I have a question: I obviously didn't recieve a licence key with it, so from now on what do I do about that? Do I even need one now?


I went in to Control Panel>System and it says "Windows is activated".


If I ever have to reinstall can I just download the ISO again?


Thanks.

Once you have Win 10 activated on a computer, M$ store the hardware information on their servers so you can do a clean install (start from scratch), skip to enter a key and it will activate.

Win 10 is a downgrade and has many issues so I think you may come back to win7 soon.

Megahertz07 said:

Once you have Win 10 activated on a computer, M$ store the hardware information on their servers so you can do a clean install (start from scratch), skip to enter a key and it will activate.

Win 10 is a downgrade and has many issues so I think you may come back to win7 soon.

OK thanks for your info. I hope I won't come back to W7 after all that. I actually read yesterday that over 50% of users are now on W10.