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Failed 7-to-10 Upgrade Attempt — Still Salvageable ?
At around 23:22 EST on Friday, July 29th, I began the subject upgrade process, assuming I'd be able to “slide in under the deadline wire.” And perhaps I did . . . or could have. But somewhere along the line, something seems to have gone wrong. And I think it's probably my own darn fault — perhaps, what I deserve for being such a chicken s#%t and putting this off to the last possible minute. I was about to throw in the towel altogether when it occurred to me the situation may still be salvageable.
To explain . . . After beginning the process at 23:22, the regular Windows Update dialogue window opened, telling me that it was downloading the upgrade code. Some 80 minutes later (now, around 00:40 EST on Saturday, July 30), I was presented with a dialogue saying that the process was ready to begin the installation and the choice to begin immediately or schedule it to occur sometime over the next several days.
This is probably where my mistakes began . . . As mentioned, it was now going on one o'clock in the morning. At some point during the preceding 80 minutes, whatever energy and mental acuity I had going for me at 23:22 had since departed. So, I decided to put off any further action until after I'd gotten some sleep. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get back to the upgrade process until much later; i.e., Saturday evening. I'm not sure about this, but I think at some point in the interim, I had closed the Windows Update dialogue window (…and this may be where I specifically went wrong).
In any event, when I went back to the ready-to-install dialogue and selected the option to install now (as opposed to a scheduled later time), I was presented once again with the familiar Windows Update dialogue window — this time with the {!} Restart your computer to install important updates displayed. So, I clicked the [·Restart now·] button and upon completion of the reboot process, the Windows Update dialogue window re-appeared — again with the {!} Restart your computer… message/prompt displayed. So, I repeated the reboot a couple more times before concluding that I'd gotten stuck in some kind of loop.
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### Relevant aside ### : I've embarked on this upgrade using more or less the approach outlined in posts 11 & 12 in this thread.
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It was at this juncture that I was about to just forget about the free upgrade and restore the (pre-download) back-up image of my boot partition. But when I opened Macrium Reflect to begin the restore operation, it occurred to me to check the before-and-after sizes of my boot partition. Sure enough, there was enough (? : 6.95·GB) of a difference to confirm that the Windows 10 install code had been successfully downloaded. Confirming this (if, indeed it is confirmed) made me reconsider my decision to just forget about the upgrade. Perhaps, everything I need to proceed is already on my hard drive and all I need to do is find out how to jump start a resumption of the install process.
So all of the preceding (hopefully, helpful background) info boils down to this question: Is there a way for me to effectively restart the upgrade installation process?
I know this was more than a tad bit long-winded, so thanks for your patience . . . and thanks ahead of time for whatever guidance you may be able to provide.
—Thri