[Not working anymore] How to upgrade from W7/8.1 without going through the complete upgrade process

nope!

 

Still working.
Activated by Digital License from Windows 7 Home to Windows 10 Home & Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 Pro.
Going to test other method i.e. 8.1 KMS.

 

your post 11:09 pm 31. 12. 2017 (GMT -8 h) in Redmond (the seat of Microsoft)

 

PST 12:05 am 1/1/18
Win7 home to win 10 pro
1. Used 1709 iso extracted to sd card using win7 bootable disk creation tool.
(You can easily mount it virtually as well, or burn to dvd - any method that lets you have access at the setup.exe and Windows install files. Win10 will first copy all that to your hd, then start the install at which point you don't need the disk). OEM W7 key with label on computer.
2. About 1:40 hours to upgrade from win 7 home to win 10 home 64 bit on a laptop hd i5-3210m with c partition of 200GB with 20+GB free.
3. W10 activated digitally upon connection to wifi.
(MAKE SURE YOU UNINSTALL CICSO VPN OR YOU'LL NOT HAVE WORKING WIFI)
4. Settings-> about> enter key to upgrade
5. Put in the Win 8 pro upgrade key purchased for $10 that was offered to most win7 users back when win8 came out for buyers of recent win7 systems.
6. System immediately took it and began another 10 minute auto upgrade to win 10 pro, valid and active upon reboot.
7. Win 10 then drove me nuts - not one good color choice that would let me see the black time well, without an eye searing start menu.
8. Settings - recovery -.revert back to win 7 (you have 10 days).
About 20 minutes later, back to WIN7!

 

Literally EVERY vanilla Windows was/is till today unbearable to me when it comes to design .

Fortunately there are 3rd party themes and loads of tweaks to make it look the way i want.

Under the hood Win 10 (and also Win 8.1 Update 3) is far superior in regards of speed, stability and system features.

 

Confirmed Working even after New year celebration and all the fireworks at Redmond .
Just tried with Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 Pro and it activated with Digital license.
Windows 8.1 Pro => KMS_VL_ALL => Windows 10 Pro (1511) also working. Windows 10 Fall Creators Update activated with Digital License.

 

Still working
Win 7 professional (daz) to win 10 1709 pro digital via genuineticket

 

migration Windows 8 vers Windows 10 is always ok at 20h40 (French) with a key of Windows 8 digital

 

I began Dec 24, 25 or 26.
Days of horror ending Dec 30 evening, when discovered that software firewalls interfere with ethernet and wifi connections in Win10.

Three Win7 devices
On Dec 30, Win7 then "Normal Virgin" Win10 upgrade install and activation.


One legitimate 2011 Win7 device rejected:
Multiple (4?) tries Dec 30 through to Jan 1, Microsoft rejected Win10 activation ("who broke your hymen, you underage whore?") at end.

The last attempt was past midnight Jan 1 using Daz after Win7 install, instead of me manually applying xrm-ms + key after Win7 install.

Who can recommend a bigshot $45k/nautical hour attorney?

 

Daz Windows Loader, mostly to see what happens:

To well after 4 hours past midnight Redmond Time, MS activated mongrel Vista and XP PCs and laptops
Procedure: Daz applied to Win7, 32 and 64bit.
Then upgrade from inside running Win7, Win10 setup.exe from extracted iso, or DVD, or flashdrive (always inside Win7).
OR upgrade by Win10 DVD or flashdrive after rebooted.

Two apparently activated Win10: Conroe PC and U7600 laptop (2007)


Two devices not activated:
1. Only minutes into setup, Win10 quickly declared Pentium D cpu is too old/unsupported.

2. Toshiba A135 (2007 Vista on 32bit Yonah) couldn't connect for activation, because never found *working* ethernet or wifi** drivers for Win10. (long mess of attempts, I might post in own thread - boring?)
With 4GB ram, A135 still ran Vista well to Vista EOL. I expect the a135 will run Mint well.

** The u700 laptop uses same Intel 3945ABG wifi, but it probably connected to the internet by ethernet.

 

This thread is meant for using the gatherosstate.exe to generate a genuineticket.xml and avoiding a full upgrade.

 

I also can confirm

dazzed 7 pro to 10 pro en 64
works today.

 

Please keep us post, Interesting.. I had more customers (has legit Windows 7 (Home or Pro) to upgrade with Geniusticket file so, Keep my finger cross..

 

If they have a legit install of Windows 7, then they don't need to go the gatherosstate route. They only need to type in their Windows 7 COA key during the Windows 10 installation and it gets activated.

 

Lucky you ... I tried last sunday (31 dec.) few hours before midnight (French time) on 2 HP computers, it didn't work for both: genuineticket not pushed, error message style 'you dot not have a valid license' (not the usual error 'unable to reach activation servers')

The method I used for a while: fresh install of W7, SLIC 2.1 activation (checked okay), copy of the genuineticket, then fresh install of W10, reboot and so on. But as joluboga said on previous post, W7 COA worked instantly to activate both computers - activation exhibits 'digital licence' activation type right after.

Curious to see if that method still works for W7 in 2018 ...

 

I've tested a DAZ loader activated 7 SP1 and it worked and i've tested a VM with valid 7 slic in bios.rom and that also worked.

 

Thanks Enthousiast for your answer! I will try probably next week at work on an old computer - I let you know

 

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^^the 'assistive technologies' upgrade wizard was interestingly never needed .

 

I don't know where that originated from, i saw some click bait article incorrectly mentioning the free HWID only could be established by the assistive upgrade tool (= normal upgrade assistant tool).
Seems many people have read that article.