How to upgrade W-7 laptop to W-10 without factory recovery partition?
Hello everyone.
I have a fairly new Dell laptop that I installed a SSD in after cloning the original HDD.
Somehow the factory recovery partition was not copied to the SSD.
I have tried twice to upgrade to W-10 and each time it has failed with error message 0XC1900200.
Research indicate the error message relates to the missing partition. So now, my question is how to upgrade without the recovery partition?
Have you used the installation media to delete all partitions on your new SSD (by using the custom install option). The drive should show as all unallocated space before you begin to install.
I had various problems with my Dell way back yonder when testing and trying W10 and found doing this resolved all issues.
Computer Type: Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Dell Vostro 3750/Acer 9301 OS: W10 pro x64 and W8.1 x86 CPU: Dell using Intel i5/Acer using AMD Turion Mobile 64 Memory: 4Gb/2Gb Graphics Card: Dell with Intel on board/Acer with NVidia GeForce Go6100 Sound Card: Realtek/Realtek Mouse: HP Z4000 Hard Drives: Dell using Micron 250Gb SSD, Acer using 120Gb Toshiba HDD Internet Speed: 51Mbs down/15Mbs up Browser: Edge Antivirus: Defender
Have you used the installation media to delete all partitions on your new SSD (by using the custom install option). The drive should show as all unallocated space before you begin to install.
I had various problems with my Dell way back yonder when testing and trying W10 and found doing this resolved all issues.
Thank you for the fast reply.
This is not a clean install. it is an upgrade from Windows 7 Pro.
I downloaded the free upgrade and ran into the problem.
If buying a copy of 10 Pro will solve the problem, I am willing to do that.
TLRSR.
Last edited by tlrsr; 18 May 2017 at 07:21.
Reason: spelling error
The media you use for upgrading should allow a clean install. I believe (from comments on here) that the W7 to W10 free offer is still working even though officially it ended months ago..
Computer Type: Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Dell Vostro 3750/Acer 9301 OS: W10 pro x64 and W8.1 x86 CPU: Dell using Intel i5/Acer using AMD Turion Mobile 64 Memory: 4Gb/2Gb Graphics Card: Dell with Intel on board/Acer with NVidia GeForce Go6100 Sound Card: Realtek/Realtek Mouse: HP Z4000 Hard Drives: Dell using Micron 250Gb SSD, Acer using 120Gb Toshiba HDD Internet Speed: 51Mbs down/15Mbs up Browser: Edge Antivirus: Defender
The media you use for upgrading should allow a clean install. I believe (from comments on here) that the W7 to W10 free offer is still working even though officially it ended months ago..
I do not want to do a clean install. I would lose all my data.
All I want is to upgrade the W-7 OS to W-10 and I can't do that because of the missing recovery partition.
Any thoughts on how to create the missing partition?
I believe the recovery partition on a Dell requires Dells own unique Master Boot Record. Even making a disk image and restoring that image 'breaks' the recovery options.
Is the cloned SSD with W7 on it working OK as a W7 installation ?
I've no quick answers as to what may fix your issue but gathering as much information will help with ideas and suggestions.
(data... as in personal files/pictures/music etc is easily copied over to a clean install if needed)
Computer Type: Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Dell Vostro 3750/Acer 9301 OS: W10 pro x64 and W8.1 x86 CPU: Dell using Intel i5/Acer using AMD Turion Mobile 64 Memory: 4Gb/2Gb Graphics Card: Dell with Intel on board/Acer with NVidia GeForce Go6100 Sound Card: Realtek/Realtek Mouse: HP Z4000 Hard Drives: Dell using Micron 250Gb SSD, Acer using 120Gb Toshiba HDD Internet Speed: 51Mbs down/15Mbs up Browser: Edge Antivirus: Defender
I believe the recovery partition on a Dell requires Dells own unique Master Boot Record. Even making a disk image and restoring that image 'breaks' the recovery options.
Is the cloned SSD with W7 on it working OK as a W7 installation ?
I've no quick answers as to what may fix your issue but gathering as much information will help with ideas and suggestions.
(data... as in personal files/pictures/music etc is easily copied over to a clean install if needed)
yes, the W-7 OS is working fine. I want to upgrade to W-10 because all my work computers are 10.
I can copy all my data, yes, but I have many programs that would be lost and some I could not reinstall.
TLRSR
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