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problem with Win 10 upgrade from Win 7 64-bit
Shane:
Ok then what you need to do is download the iso directly.
There is a trick to getting the iso, microsofts site, when it sees you are on windows makes you use the media creation tool, but if it thinks you are not on windows it will give you iso download links instead.
Here is how you can fool it so you can get the iso directly
http://www.askvg.com/tip-get-direct-download-links-of-windows-10-iso-from-microsoft/
Note, from the looks of it there is a 2nd site where you can get the iso without having to do the trick.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/techbench
Then once you have iso you can use the rufus tool to make a bootable USB from the iso
https://rufus.akeo.ie/
Then once it is on the usb, dont boot off the usb, instead run the setup from it while in windows.
Shane
Boggin:
So are you saying that you had a successful download on the desktop ?
@ Shane - Have those damaged Packages as from the opening post been fixed now so that they won't interfere with updates ?
TelKen:
OK Shane did all that but tried to install, puts a Blue box on screen with one large word, "WINDOWS", and that is as far as it goes. Well the box disappears and back to my normal Desk Top screen, and the Task Manager shows no activity.
Boggin I had a successful?? download of MCT but it doesn't run, have downloaded about five copies all with same result and all same size file = 19,188 Kb.
Shane:
That windows logo can stay up for a while depending. It will make a $windows. bt folder on the root of your c: drive. In there will be the logs of any trouble it is having, could give use some insight to why it is being a pain in the butt lol
Shane
TelKen:
OK Shane I'll check that out. Meantime I found this on the internet after doing some searching, apparently it came from Microsoft.
“Locate the registry key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade]
It should exist, but if not, create it.
Create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value with Name = “AllowOSUpgrade” (without the quotes), and set the Value = 0x00000001.” (Source: microsoft)
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