Win10 Upgrade or Install? What if hard drive goes bad?

[Chemz11]

By upgrading to Win10 do they mean upgrade like update or do they mean wipe Win7/8 to install upgrade? What happens if my hard drive goes bad and I had to reinstall Win7/8, will I still get the chance to redownload Win10 even if the 1 year free upgrade already expired? Sorry for nooby questions, I've read some articles about Win10 brain couldn't process anything so I didn't fully understand wth I was reading.

 

[USAFRet]

See this:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_upgrade/windows-10-upgrade-product-key/6e0ec248-c87a-472f-90d1-64b32cef226a

"Microsoft recently noted the following options available:

With Windows 10, you can create your own recovery media and back up the pristine state of the operating system and preinstalled software. If things go wrong and you are unable to refresh or reset your device successfully, you can boot the device using recovery media and reset to the prior pristine state."

 

[unplanned bacon]

So, let's say if I change my CPU (which I will in future) will Windows 10 still be good to go? And if I change my SSD (no plans to, but what if) to a new one I can just slap Windows 10 on there

 

[USAFRet]

So, let's say if I change my CPU (which I will in future) will Windows 10 still be good to go? And if I change my SSD (no plans to, but what if) to a new one I can just slap Windows 10 on there

Probably.
Or, we could wait for actual details from MS...