Guys, my notebook came with Windows 8.1 Core but since I dislike Windows 8.1, I reformated my notebook and installed Windows 7 Pro and activated with MS Toolkit. After I upgrade to Windows 10 Pro(I believe I should be getting Windows 10 Pro since Win 7 Pro->Win 10 Pro?) and get it activated online, etc. When I do a format and clean install Windows 10 Pro again, will I be able to activate it since my notebook's BIOS is for Windows 8.1 Core which should translate to Windows 10 Home and not Windows 10 Pro.
Don't clean install from the media. Go to settings ---> update & security ----> recovery -> reset this pc
dont add a key during install, and choose pro. MS should activate it without issue. It should ignore your MSDM table where your core key is. -ed- and yes use Reset this pc. a Better option IMO than the whole boot and reinstall from last year. Welcome to Windows 10 reset (it works!)
I've downloaded and installed the windows 10 pro from this post. Intel hd graphics control panel is showing this build as insider preview, must be a mistake from Intel right ?
I have a machine that I freshly installed W7 SP1 on activated with DAZ loader. I used Rufus to create a bootable USB from the wzor W10 Pro ISO. The problem I am having, is when I run the setup file off the USB while in Windows 7, once past the partitioning screen, it never asks me if I want to do an upgrade. It just starts installing. So far nobody has answered my question and I have not found an answer. Do I have to do some Windows updates first on W7, before running the setup utility off the W10 bootable USB? On another machine with a freshly installed copy of W7 activated with Daz, the upgrade screen did come up when running the W10 setup file. So I am very confused.
But in my above post, I was trying to convey that the upgrade option never shows on this machine I'm working on right now. It just starts installing. How do I get it to trigger the upgrade screen option and why isn't that option showing up like the last machine I did? I don't want to do the W10 upgrade through Windows Update. I tried it twice with the USB key, should I try it from a burned DVD instead? Because on the machine I had success with last night, it was from a burned DVD.
yes I have upgraded and it is activation one more question I have 2 hard drives if I do the reset way can I make it to wipe out both hard drives also or do I need to run my wipe drive on the other one as d is just back up stuff and c is the main one with the os on it
It can wipe the system drive c: or all drives, no option to choose "some" drives. So if you want to wipe all, there is the option for All drives.
hi friends i post message that my windows folder has 9GB so any solution how and why is this too big ??? cos i think normal must be from 2 to 5 GB i think i has no previous OS files on disk also i delete all backups from windows update, i disable windows restore, disable hibernation also i running winsxs clean component... but same
I would like to share some of my research data. currently the smallest possible windows 10x32 footprint is 8GB Here are my test data by testing on VMWare workstation 10 upgraded from Windows 7 (In windows) 14.3GB disk cleanup (remove older windows installation) 8.44GB after upgraded from windows 7, disk cleanup, boot from iso, install on top of existing installation 14.5gb disk cleanup (remove older windows installation) 9gb after upgraded from windows 7 , disk cleanup, boot from iso, clean installation with format c 8.06GB of course windows10 x64 definitely will be way bigger.
Hey guys. Are you experiencing slow shutdown/reboot ? I've tried everything I can (fresh install, with/without driver, reg tweaks, differents ISO, etc..), it still super slow to shut down (exactly 8 sec) compared to W7/W8.1 (~2-3 sec). The boot is pretty fast (5-10 sec with UEFI, depending if the Windows logon does his job fast or not, hmm..). Config : M500 480GB, 16GB RAM, i7 4770K, GTX 970.