You should only boot from the setup usb if you want to do a clean install, but that would not activate as you would have wiped your existing Win7 in the process, along with any entitlement to a digital licence for Win10. Once you have a digital licence you can clean install 10 without providing a key and it will activate automatically from the digital licence. A digital licence for Windows 10 is stored on Microsoft's activation servers and is linked to the hardware ID of your PC. That would be what I would be doing in your place because an existing licenced copy of Win7 Pro will be given a digital licence for Win10 Pro as part of the upgrade. I assume you want to upgrade your existing 'win7pro' to Windows 10 Pro. Why are you trying to boot from it in the first place? I'm not sure why it won't boot, but let's take a step back here. What could be the cause?Welcome to TenForums Win10trial. the dots just keep spinning for hours and set up does not continue. I can boot the drive and Windows 10 starts, logo appears, then the spinning dots appear and the logo disappears, and then. Today I successfully installed a win10-1803.iso on an external/usb drive using WinToUsb (latest version).
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