I have a few questions.

[HappyGuy003]

I have a HP 15 TouchSmart Notebook PC it came with windows 8.1 preinstalled.I since then upgraded to windows 10 when they had it as a free upgrade.Now my question is IF i order the recovery kit for this computer.Knowing it will reinstrall windows 8.1 back on here.Could i reinstall windows 10 or would i have to purchase windows 10?The person i got the laptop off of didnt have the Recovery DVDs.And i wasnt able to create them.Thanks in advance.

[mdklassen · Accepted solution]

> I upgraded [from Windows 8] to windows 10 when they had it as a free upgrade.

> Now my question is if i order the recovery kit for this computer.Knowing it will reinstrall windows 8.1

Correct.  The Recovery Kit will reinstall the original operating system.

> Could I reinstall windows 10 or would I have to purchase windows 10?

Since your computer was running Windows 10, you have been granted a "digital entitlement" to re-install Windows 10 at any time, at no cost to you.

Download the March 2017 Creators Update to Windows 10 from:

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

When prompted to enter a 25-character product-key, click "Skip".

The first time that Windows 10 connects to the Internet, it will leverage your entitlement to automatically "activate" Windows.

[HappyGuy003]

Okay thank you so much.