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Question

Windows 7 upgrade to 10 fails

Apr 11, 2016 10:41AM PDT

I am working on my wife's machine. She had XP. I have now installed windows 7, ran the update advisor (its fine) and proceeded to the "starting download" part of the upgrade to 10. It continues the 'starting' forever. Then I started rooting around. There is a LOT of stuff on this one!

Anyway, in my search I found one that looks as if it will work but thought I would ask if this is a good idea (not the upgrade the running of the program) The plan would be to download and run the Microsoft Media Creation Tool. The reason I am asking is because I really want to make sure this will work and not destroy any stuff on this machine that I just spent 2 days getting back on. I am doing this with a new drive and have saved the old xp drive (now drive d) so I don't lose anything. I also would like somebody to tell me that this program will work for this upgrade. I get antsy about this stuff and always wonder.

Thank you...............

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Yes it will destroy.
Apr 11, 2016 10:47AM PDT

That's an easy yes. When I can't lose an install like that I can backup the HDD image to somewhere. You should be doing this anyway.

So far my list of things that foul up the W10 upgrade is pretty short. Viral or other malware infections. A cracked OS. Some antivirus suites and hardware issues.

So I've learned to unplug USB printers and such along with ejecting CD/DVD emulators and the AV suites then I'm nearly 100 out of 100 successes. I have only used the media creation kit to recover a banged up W10. Didn't use it to do an upgrade on dozens of machines.

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Upgrade
Apr 11, 2016 11:57AM PDT

Remove the xp hdd from the machine and tuck it away.
That's got all 'your stuff' on it.
Now you can play with the update.
Worst case it blows up and you reinstall w7.

Is there a make and model of this machine?

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Thanks for the replies!
Apr 11, 2016 12:52PM PDT

I am assuming, then, that the Media Creation Tool will understand I am trying to upgrade and functions (nobody actually said anything about that one so I think its a give?)

That being the case I might as well create an image, disconnect the old xp drive and have at it.

Thanks again!!

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finished
Apr 12, 2016 1:10PM PDT

I have now updated to windows 10 and it went quite well. The media creation tool worked just fine. Now the problem is windows 10 and our ignorance of that operating system. I also had my old xp drive hooked up to make this conversion easier. This morning I turned on the machine and it told me that the disk was failing and then I was no longer able to boot. I then disabled my xp drive and it came up. This is all very mysterious. I will remove the xp drive and test it independently. Interesting times.................

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Save it
Apr 23, 2016 4:34PM PDT

Just save all your data on an external hard drive . Its that simple.