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If he's happy with what he has and doesn't want to upgrade then he shouldn't upgrade. The upgrade to Windows 10 does involve risk, and the OP clearly does not have the resources readily available to mitigate that risk.
The only misinformation that needs to be corrected is that upgrading to Windows 10 will not cause hardware failure, nor will it make changes to the bios/UEFI firmware.
The OP has two thread's open and both are about how to install 10.
This to me says he want's to do the upgrade.
I would LIKE to do the upgrade.... but I'm pretty scared now. Even someone in this forum, (I think it was this forum), said they've seen upgrades cause HD failure.
Right now I'm thinking I should wait 'til this new OS is older, making sure no more computers appear to be getting trashed by the upgrade. I was hoping a clean install might be safer but I just don't know enough about all this to be able to take a chance on losing my computer. In this thread, did I mention that a friend of mine's computer no longer works after trying the upgrade? She's handicapped, poor, and can't replace it.
No one stated the upgrade caused an HDD failure, what was stated was that some HDDs failed to boot due to a change MS did in a driver. That does not constitute a HDD failure, there was no harm done whatsoever to the HDD, updating to a fixed version or falling back to the previous version of the driver made things work again. That's NOT a hardware failure.
As far as the OS "frying the cpu", as has been stated, not possible for the OS to actually destroy the cpu. However, I could imagine a computer illiterate person using that term to describe a situation where the computer no longer boots. It doesn't boot so therefore the cpu was fried.
OK, I been researching, studying, and learning. :) What you guys are saying rings true now. I'm gonna attempt the upgrade... but now I have other questions. I want to make a disk image with Macrium Reflect. My external drive looks empty and OK in THIS PC, and COMPUTER MANAGEMENT. In COMPUTER MANAGEMENT, it says, "Healthy (Primary Partition). But in MACRIUM REFLECT, the external drive looks FULL... and it says, "Unformatted Primary." Can anybody tell me what's happening here? I just formatted that disk!