All you need to do is to run Setup.exe of a Win 10 installation files.
- Download the iso file using MCT (media creation tool)
- On win 7, use 7zip to extract the iso files to a folder.
- Disable AV.
- Run setup.exe
- If asked the Win 10 key, skip it.
If you can't upgrade, do a clean install
- Backup your data on an external disk
- Generate a GenuineTicket.xml using gatherosstate.exe tool and save it on an external disk.
- Do a Win 10 Pro Clean install on a blank drive and use the GenuineTicket.xml generated under Win 7 Pro and it will Activate the Win 10 Pro just installed.
Clean Install Windows 10 without having to Upgrade First
Last edited by Megahertz; 29 Jun 2020 at 10:45.
In addition to using a blank drive, @graywoulf, you could also create a blank partition on your existing drive to clean install Windows 10 to and it would set up dual booting with Windows 7. MiniTool Partition Wizard is a great program that you could shrink your C: drive partition by no less than 64 GB, create a new partition and then install Windows 10 to the new partition. You can then just use your Windows 7 Pro product key to activate Windows 10 Pro (make sure you install Pro!). You can create a USB flash drive that can be used for a clean install (including to just a new partition), or also used for upgrading by using the Media Creation Tool:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/windows10
Note: your dual booting with Windows 7 would have to be temporary, because to dual boot two Windows installation (of any flavor) requires two separate licenses for Windows and you currently only have 1 license for Windows on that computer.
Thank you to all of you guys for the suggestions, tips and all. I just compiled a cheat sheet to use later on. At this time, I am leaning towards a clean install after I back the drive up. It would be the cleanest way I think but at any rate, I have to wait for the keyboard adapter to arrive from Amazon on Tuesday. I will let you know how it goes at that time.
Use this failed upgrade as an opportunity to test the drives.
Post #10 steps #11 - #15.
Most can be performed overnight.
After all of the diagnostics and research and purchasing a new USB keyboard, I decided to back up the C: drive and do a image backup as well. I then unplugged every non-essential device I could and proceeded to try the upgrade again using the DVD I had burned for the job. This time, I set the upgrade to wipe the drive instead of saving files and apps.
The upgrade went smoothly this time and W10 is now installed. But, there is still a problem. When it had restarted W10 and began the setup process, every time it wanted to set up the WiFi connection it failed and did a short recovery process and rebooted the PC. I finally on the third time around skipped the WiFi setup and was able to get to a normal desktop and after giving it a few minutes to boot up completely, I tried connecting to the WiFi router in my home again and once again got the same error message and a reboot. This time, I snapped a picture of the error message. They were...
"PAGE FAULT IN NON PAGED AREA" and below that was, "what failed: netr28ux.sys".
What I did see was information that spoke of failed upgrade attempts and or bad RAM and a few other things. I had just installed 8 more gigs of RAM before the upgrade but it was working fine with W7 Pro.
So here I am once again asking you gurus what can I do to fix this. TIA!
Did you see if there is no yellow alerts of missing drivers under device manager?
Is the main disk a SSD or a HDD? As administrator, run a Check Disk (chkdsk c: /f) on it.
You said that you add more RAM. Are all sticks same specs and same brand?
Well, I got it fixed. As my signature reflects, I kept on plugging away at it. All of the chkdsk and other troubleshooting efforts did not help. As it turned out, it was a problem with my USB WiFi modules driver. I did a driver update sourcing the update from the backup drive and it reinstalled the driver and now everything is fine and dandy. I just have to reinstall all of my software or apps or whatever they are called now. 🙄 😉
Thank you everyone that took the time to help out in every way!
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