Windows 8 recovery disk questions

AimAtShadows

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Okay guys, so I'm trying to sell my old gaming computer on craigslist, but I have one major problem. I had to purchase a new HDD for the computer because I am going to reuse the hard drive I have in it now and I need to put an operating system on the new HDD. However, I dont want to spend $100+ on a new operating system that I'm not even going to use. I thought that, since I upgraded to windows 10, if i buy the recovery disk for the HDD (i salvaged the motherboard and the HDD from an old HP Envy I had laying around) that I could put windows 8 on the old computer and still keep my copy of windows 10 on the HDD I will be using personally. However, I dont know if that will affect my product key in any way, or if it will render my current operating system to deactivate.

tl;dr: I want to use a recovery disk to make a copy of my old operating system, but I dont want to deactivate my current OS in the process. Any ideas?
 
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You cannot both use an upgrade from your current W8 and use your W8 on another machine, if that is your question.

There is one problem -- it sounds like you are planning to use an old OEM W8 version on your new computer and upgrade to W10, and I do not think that is within the license of your old OEM W8 OS.

RealBeast

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You cannot both use an upgrade from your current W8 and use your W8 on another machine, if that is your question.

There is one problem -- it sounds like you are planning to use an old OEM W8 version on your new computer and upgrade to W10, and I do not think that is within the license of your old OEM W8 OS.
 
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