Win10 upgrade keeps getting stuck at 86%

Anak said:

beginner99,

I saw this, and if you answer my question in the affirmative you're going to have to do a reinstall either with an OS disk or hopefully a saved image:
Does this mean that you have been working with this win10 upgrade since last fall?

I upgraded last Fall but the upgraded system was completely unstable freezing up sometimes minutes after boot, sometimes hours. I then reverted back to 7.

I have a full image of main drive with OS before starting this current upgrade.

beginner99 said:

Unbelievable. Now the upgrade went through and that pretty quickly. What I did was remove VirtualBox and ran registry cleaner from CC cleaner.

Win10 is now activated so as far as I understood I can now anytime upgrade if I choose to revert to 7? I say this because it seems I have the same stability issues again as when I tried last fall.

Yeah, alot of your errors were for VB. That's great news that you got it upgraded again!
Yes, once W10 is installed and activated on a machine, it can be clean installed as often as you like/need.

To be honest, I have seen the most problems with W7 upgrades; more so than with W8 upgrades. All problems, though, have been completely fixed by a clean install. Of course, this means reinstalling all your programs...transferring your data...but, in the end, you get a super-stable, well-oiled machine! Think about it.

beginner99 said:

It's still strange as I had VB installed since like forever.

Yeah I thin clean-install is unavoidable but I dread it. Probably wait for that when I upgrade my PC not too far in the future.

Thanks for your help and thanks to all others! Have a nice weekend.

Sounds good. I bit the bullet and clean installed mine. I just installed programs as I needed them, so it wasn't too bad. Cheers! :)