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It seems I may have reached the point now where this will be the option to take. First I have been trying to debug and rebuild the BCD store from the latest triple boot project with three different versions of Windows 10/7Dual Boot Presently seen to add in the latest W11 Pro. Before this came up 10 stopped seeing additional hard drives and even detecting USB devices for some unknown reason but now made a comeback until the 10 Drive became unbootable?
The 7 drive had been the Host/Boot drive for some time until seeing if W11 would go on leading to the likely need to see the Repair by Upgrade install take place. Certain programs if lost won't be able to be reinstalled from start. As for select files those are presently shared between drives to prevent losses from any possible situation including drive failure or accidental deletion.
Before I get totally lost and forget to ask one particular question here would be a Repair Install seen if either a dvd purchased for the initial retail installation or unpacking an ISO download to manually browse the root of C: would also be able to set the upgrade to repair install in motion or not? For one recent test install of Windows an ISO disk was unpacked to an empty drive made bootable and saw Windows see a temp install go on it!
It took a bit more time as the process ran slower note. But there were no errors to find with that copy of Windows otherwise running smooth despite not seeing updated drivers other then what was available backed up on another drive. The wait for the language selection screen followed by another long wait for the product key prompting to then wait a bit longer even to finally reach the desktop would otherwise be an annoyance for some.
Last edited by Night Hawk; 15 Oct 2023 at 00:43. Reason: Forgot to add question
Can i prepare the ISO on one windows 10 Pro machine and use it on another Windows 10 Pro machine ?
I screwed up my ProgramFiles\WindowsApps folder by taking ownership of it and trying to restore ownership to Trusted Installers. Now, when I try to launch anything in that folder, I get a "The process has no package identity" error. Will an in place repair fix this?
I tried in-place repair twice, doing DISM and SFC before the second one. Both times it stalled at 31% for a few hours. Short of a clean install, is there anything else I can try?
You need to disable 3rd party... AV, firewall and encryption software.
The ISO you use must be the same language as the Windows installed version.
Tell it to skip doing updates, as well. Do any updates before or after the In-Place Upgrade... not during.
Sometimes, the In-Place Upgrade has trouble on a prebuilt computer, like a laptop.
There may be some Lenovo Utility causing the problem?
I just did this tutorial exactly as Brink showed. For a while I thought I got stuck at 70% but it’s finally got past that it rebooted and now it is working on updates 90%. It certainly is taking a long time.
I just bought a brand new Western digital green SSD and I noticed right away that it’s not as fast as the blue 3D Nand. I might have to buy the blue one again, but the one that I had was down to 20% wear level left.
I don’t know why that happened. It was at about 95% and within two months it went down to 20%
I have it in a container now and it’s staying at 21% so I’m thinking maybe the drive is not bad it was probably the cable.
Anyway, my entire system was hosed and I am hoping that this fixed some of my problems for one thing my Windows 7 back up and restore was no longer working. I don’t know why that got messed up.
I noticed some thing about windows 10 is that you have to run SFC /SCANNOW at least once a week, if not, Daily and I think running that might have destroyed some of the features… i’m just going to have to see what works after the system comes back up. It’s at the “hi“ stage right now…
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