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Step 3 in tutorial has been updated for upgrading to Windows 10 using the new Media Creation Tool from Microsoft. :)
Step 3 in tutorial has been updated for upgrading to Windows 10 using the new Media Creation Tool from Microsoft. :)
Thanks Shawn! I was able to successfully upgrade W10 over my W7 Home Premium install. Hopefully I can use the esd to create an iso from.
Yes, you can.
ESD to ISO - Create Bootable ISO from Windows 10 ESD File
However, you could just download an official ISO at anytime from Microsoft now. :)
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/9...-download.html
Yes, I know I can download the ISO, but I have a metered Internet access and I am trying to conserve data. Just the upgrade took over 3.6 Gbs of data. Hopefully I can do a clean install once Rufus finishes doing it's thing. Thanks for your help!!
Hi Shawn,
I'm wondering if I can also do an upgrade using Step 3 rather than Step 4 and still get the activation status?
The posts in this Twitter conversation by Gabe Aul and 'northfacehiker' (who seems to be a Microsoft support person and I've seen mentioned in Gabe's tweets before) suggest that an upgrade install from the ISO will activate, and I'm pretty sure I've seen similar behaviour when I installed an earlier Insider Build over Windows 8.1
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In my case I'm on metered data so I'm hoping I can download an ISO once and use it to upgrade more than one PC to get activated status, then clean install later.
Do you think this would work?
Hello David,
I was able to upgrade from 8.1 to 10 using the Media Creation Tool, and 10 was activated for me afterwards. It's worth a try, to see if it'll do the same for you.
Great post & tutorial Shawn.
I have a question regarding step 15, regarding the 'Change what to Keep' dialog box.
Can we go a bit in depth what happens when we choose any of the above 3 options?
I have a partition/2nd drive which my default windows users library points to (documents/pictures/videos/etc...). Say I choose the 'Nothing' option... what happens exactly? Are all the files also deleted from my 2nd drive or is just the primary hard drive [c:] cleaned out?
Thank you for your time.