• Upgrading a W7 system to W10 - NOT clean install

    From David@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 22 15:33:48 2023
    Just checking.

    I am on a W10 machine creating W10 install media on a USB stick.

    The Microsoft web page says to boot from this stick and then install.

    It is not clear if this will give me the option to upgrade, or if it will
    only offer a clean install.

    I have for the moment abandoned the attempt to run the upgrade from within
    W7 because of apparent TLS issues.

    If someone has done an upgrade of a working system using external media I
    would be reassured.

    TIA


    Dave R



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  • From Abandoned_Trolley@21:1/5 to David on Sat Jul 22 18:04:13 2023
    On 22/07/2023 16:33, David wrote:
    Just checking.

    I am on a W10 machine creating W10 install media on a USB stick.

    The Microsoft web page says to boot from this stick and then install.

    It is not clear if this will give me the option to upgrade, or if it will only offer a clean install.

    I have for the moment abandoned the attempt to run the upgrade from within
    W7 because of apparent TLS issues.

    If someone has done an upgrade of a working system using external media I would be reassured.

    TIA


    Dave R




    I was not aware that you could upgrade to W10 from "within W7"


    Boot from the stick and you will be given the option to upgrade and keep
    your files.

    Just dont delete any partitions on the disc - let W10 sort it out for you



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  • From David@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 22 17:57:58 2023
    On Sat, 22 Jul 2023 18:04:13 +0100, Abandoned_Trolley wrote:

    On 22/07/2023 16:33, David wrote:
    Just checking.

    I am on a W10 machine creating W10 install media on a USB stick.

    The Microsoft web page says to boot from this stick and then install.

    It is not clear if this will give me the option to upgrade, or if it
    will only offer a clean install.

    I have for the moment abandoned the attempt to run the upgrade from
    within W7 because of apparent TLS issues.

    If someone has done an upgrade of a working system using external media
    I would be reassured.

    TIA


    Dave R




    I was not aware that you could upgrade to W10 from "within W7"


    Boot from the stick and you will be given the option to upgrade and keep
    your files.

    Just dont delete any partitions on the disc - let W10 sort it out for
    you

    Well, here's a thing.
    If you don't boot from the stick, but run "setup.exe" within W7 it does an
    in situ upgrade!

    About to update my signature to reflect my new OS.

    I copied the contents of the boot USB stick to my internal SSD (seems to
    me that would be faster during the install) and then ran the upgrade.

    It all went remarkably smoothly.
    Not many programmes found to be out of date.
    Now we shall see how well/badly it went.

    Cheers



    Dave R



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