Upgrading to windows 10 but have windows 7 drivers installed

[MM_Ribosomal]

So I reinstalled windows because a few days ago it broke because of a driver issue, and i'm upgrading from windows 7 to 10, but i'm wondering if upgrading to windows 10 will mess anything up. I have windows 7 64 bit drivers for my motherboard, and my gpu. If i upgrade to windows 10 64 bit, will something get corrupted or will it be fine.

I'm a little paranoid, don't wanna go through all of this ever again

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Is this a legal upgrade? Have you purchased a license for Windows 10? Why are you upgrading? What kind of equipment do you have? Has this PC ever had Windows 10 on it before?

 

[Colif]

where you on win 10 before?
Does motherboard have win 10 drivers as not all win 7 drivers will work and Win 10 requires driver signatures to be right (signed by MS) or the drivers won't even run

GPU might be okay as AMD & Nvidia probably have win 10 drivers for it.

 

[MM_Ribosomal]

Is this a legal upgrade? Have you purchased a license for Windows 10? Why are you upgrading? What kind of equipment do you have? Has this PC ever had Windows 10 on it before?

Yes, this is legal.. I'm upgrading because of better game performance? it had windows ten on it before it messed up and i had to reinstall everything. Lol? What do you mean 'equipment'? are you asking for my specs? if so,

GA-78LMTUSB3 \
GTX 760 2GB Direct CU II
Amd FX 8350
16gb ddr3 hyper x ram

 

[MM_Ribosomal]

where you on win 10 before?
Does motherboard have win 10 drivers as not all win 7 drivers will work and Win 10 requires driver signatures to be right (signed by MS) or the drivers won't even run

GPU might be okay as AMD & Nvidia probably have win 10 drivers for it.

It had windows 10 on it before it broke and i had to reinstall. currently running windows 7 64 bit Home.

my motherboard has windows 7 drivers on it currently. this is a custom build pc, by the way.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Just install Windows 10 and forget about Windows 7. The system will update the drivers automatically.

 

[gasaraki]

When you go through the upgrade, the Win10 upgrader will tell you if anything is not compatible, including drivers that it doesn't have anymore. If everything seems ok and it doesn't tell you about problems, you should be good to go.

I really don't know why people above are asking stupid questions

 

[Colif]

fresh install win 10 as rocky says, don't need to reinstall win 7 again

change boot order in BIOS so USB/DVD is first, hdd second
boot from installer
follow this guide: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html

when you reach the screen asking for licence, click "I don't have a key" and win 10 will continue to install and reactivate once finished

On the screen where you choose where to install win 10, if it gives you an error about GPT drives, delete all the partitions on the hdd and press next. If it still gives error, cancel out of the installer and restart PC and start installer again, it will accept next on that screen this time (some PC just need a restart here)

 

[das_stig]

Once you do the the first W7 to W10 upgrade you have a digital licence activated and stored by Microsoft.
Simply do a clean install from W10 USB/DVD, zapping any existing partitions during the install.
W10 should provide the vast majority of generic drivers to get you running, those it doesn't you get online.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

And use the Microsoft Media Creation Tool to download a fresh Windows 10 image because it will contain the latest updates of Windows 10. This will save time in the long run.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

 

[Colif]

if Win 10 ever stops working again, just reinstall it and not 7 as you don't need to go backwards to get a new copy of win 10,