I'm At My Wits In On Upgrading to Win 10

I'll explain.. About two weeks ago I went to turn on my HP p6750f desktop PC and things didn't work as before. It appears I had parts of a Windows 10 upgrade and some of the old Windows 7 Home OS. I tried for hours to get it working, but that didn't happen. So, I decided to take my three Win 7 install discs and do a complete Recovery on the hard drive That takes about 4 hours to get it back to factory reset before I can do anything else. All went well in installing the necessary files and OS. However, when it became time to install any "updates" that didn't happen, and it never shows I have any updates to install. I know better, as I have done a factory rest before. I did the Windows SP1 upgrade, and few others by the Microsoft website, but that's it...no more upgrade after three days of waiting. Thinking there may be a error in the factory rest, I did another one, but, it 's doing the same old routine. I'm now on my fourth Factory Reset, and I'm now watching the monitor screen that the Windows 10 upgrade screen showing...Getting Updates, and it has been 8 hours searching for these updates. It shows 0%...
So, has anyone had the same problem as I'm having?

NOTE: I also have a HP dc7900 SFF PC that had Windows 7 Home and the Windows 10 upgrade went very well with no problems...

I reinstalled Windows 7 SP1 on an old laptop a week or 2 back. There were more than 200 updates available. Some of them failed and trashed the EDB. store so that Windows update just keeps going and getting nowhere. When you try to install an upgrade to Windows 10 on that Windows 7 system, the overactive Windows 7 update service (WUAUSERV) prevents the Windows 10 updates from getting through, and the upgrade tends to fail. Some folks have reported that stopping the WUAUSERV from the elevated command prompt (see below) a couple of times as required allows the upgrade to proceed - but it failed for me.

You can clean install as suggested above, or you can disconnect from the internet while doing the upgrade (without updates, updating the new installation later), or you can cancel the upgrade and stop WUAUSERV and delete the following files from an admin command prompt:

Code:

Net stop wuauserv <enter>
del C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb <enter>
del C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\logs\*.* <enter>
Net start wuauserv <enter>

and let the updates to the Windows 7 system completely install themselves - it could be a whole night or day to complete on an older PC. The advantage is that if you find the upgrade rolling back to 7, you have a fully patched system ready to go.

If you decide to clean install, see here and get a "genuine ticket.xml" on your Windows 7 installation, before upgrading, and store it safely* in the event that activation does not take place, to use as a digital entitlement for your upgrade.

*USB storage, or zip it in an email attachment to yourself, so that you can obtain it easily from the new upgrade installation.

UPDATE: After 16 hours of running Windows 10 upgrade trying to download the latest windows updates to install Ten, the computer did complete it's operation to Ten. I now have Windows 10 working well... That is, I think it's working okay. There must have been a lot of Updates that needed to be installed before Ten to start it's download.

NOTE: I have Windows 10 on another HP desktop that was running Windows 7 Home, and this Windows 10 Home on this PC is completely different. It has the APPS, but, they are more and different than the other PC. That doesn't concern me, as I don't use these APPS. However, I did notice this version of Ten is faster than the other PC with Ten. I realize the reason... this PC has a larger hard drive, and a dual-core cpu and twice the memory. If that makes it a good reason it's faster.