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Many reports of people clean installing 8.1 then immediately upgrading to 10 successfully.
Means you would have to backup your data first though. Image backup would be the best way to go.
Thanks, I have managed to get a USB via someone else s PC. I will not be able to try this for a few days as my wife is a bit upset with how long I have spent doing this and we do have a lot one in the next two weeks!
But I suspect I may have the same problems, if so I was thinking of doing a refresh as if that worked it would be a lot quicker than having to rebuild my laptop as its used for photo graphics with a lot of programs. Does any one know if this has worked, running the USB as soon as the original refresh is done rather than doing all the updates first?
But its created a 32bit install so back to the start again!
Last edited by john7; 05 Aug 2015 at 10:14.
You have to successfully do an upgrade and activation first then you can boot the DVD or flash drive to do a clean install.
Total failure the new 64bit USB didn't run at all just as the creator. Looks like 8.1 on this laptop
Well puting on a 3 month image has let me update now. Before no errors or anything just didn't run.
But IO an having so many problems, Outlook not sending, but receiving OK, now, I may well go back!