Although I have done nothing yet on the note book I evaluated this on another machine at home. No issue with an upgrade from disk with no system reserve partition. Have not messed with this machine...

Thanks for the response, you did not mention anything about the partition aspect. Win 7 is running fine on the machine right now. Can I do the upgrade via DVD on current setup and let the installer...

On my laptop I have 3 primary partitions only, ( no small 100m partition windows typical installs use ). I have had Windows 10 in a hidden folder for a while now, but have postponed the update until...