TH2 pulled, what is the best method to upgrade to 10?

Hey all,

So I have a Lenovo x230 laptop sitting here that has W7 Professional installed on it. I just grabbed an 850EVO SSD 250GB for it and I'm guessing I will have to clone W7 to the SSD to activate my W7 Pro license since it will deactivate once I swap out the HDD's?

My question is, whats the best way to upgrade to W10 TH1 10586 without putting tons of writes on the SSD for no reason by cloning, upgrading and so forth and wasting valuable time in the process.

Can I use my W7 Pro key and install W10 TH1 from a bootable USB stick and just have W10 activated like that or do I have to clone W7 then upgrade to 10240 then finally 10586? I would rather just upgrade all the way.

I never had a chance to download the media creation tool and the only ISO I have on my drive is the official 10240 ISO. I never used the media creation tool from MS because I felt more comfortable with RUFUS instead. Should I just wait until we get more answers from MS and they change their page or should I go looking for a "copy" of the TH1 iso on the web? Trying to figure out the best options, thanks.

Instead of:

3. Install the SSD, remove the HDD, boot from the USB, clean install Windows 10 Pro to the USB. Skip entering the product key during install.

If you have a retail key, or one from the COA sticker on the machine, you can try:

3. Install the SSD, remove the HDD, boot from the USB, clean install Windows 10 Pro to the USB. Enter the Windows 7 product key during install the first time when asked for a product key.

If the installation proceeds, the key has been accepted, and activation should be automatic. If not, skip, and try the other routes suggessted.

Word Man said:

That's gatherosstate.exe, right?

yes, thank you for the correction!

About a week ago, I downloaded the ISO before it was pulled. I uploaded it to Google Drive. Here it is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwt...BoX2Q3RzA/view. You can download it, mount it, then run setup.exe

M4v3r1ck said:

What's with the setup screen logo and texts. Never seen that before! Is this a home-brew version? (no accusations intended!)

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M4v3r1ck said:

What's with the setup screen logo and texts. Never seen that before! Is this a home-brew version? (no accusations intended!)

Cheers

What do you mean?

I found the logo and attached it

It starts the initial stage in "text" mode (no pictures) but after restart you should see a circle gradually becoming blue as setup progresses.