Win 10 1607, is it needed?

I'll have to try that over the weekend. I went through hell trying to get the Win10 upgrade from Win 7 but that was several months ago and it may have been how I finally did it. I'll have to do a backup and hope I don't lose my OS as I have it now considering it was the free upgrade. That's my biggest concern, losing 10 altogether.

You won't lose W10. When it was activated during the W7 upgrade MS recorded the activation code on its servers and if you re-install W10 on the same system it will check its servers and activate again.

If you can't get it to update you can download the latest W10 ISO and do a clean install and it will activate. One of my systems would not update to 1511 so I just did a clean install and its been doing great.

Jim

Brian925 said:

I'll have to do a backup and hope I don't lose my OS as I have it now considering it was the free upgrade. That's my biggest concern, losing 10 altogether.

Making a system image first is always a good idea. I used one to make a copy of my original OEM Win7 HDD before taking the free upgrade.

As @Phone Man says, a digital licence tied to your hardware and was recorded by Microsoft. A clean install will activate automatically. 'Hardware' for this purpose doesn't include the hard drive. For the Anniversary Update, before upgrading my system first I swapped out my HDD for a spare one and did a test clean install of 1607 on that. It activated within minutes.

I just tried installing Win 10 from the ISO image created on a DVD. I got to 47% and then...

Modern setup host has stopped working.
A program caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.

As @dalchina says here https://www.tenforums.com/installati...d-working.html you need at least 20GB unused space before you start. On that particular thread...

Ok, I finally managed to upgrade to anniversary edition. The problem was I originally moved the users folder to another drive...

Typical of Microsoft. Their tech wizards never make things easy. It's why I stuck with Win 7 even though MS made it impossible to get updates. I tried installing again with no other drives installed but the C drive, same message and same failure. Here we go again, thanks Microsoft!

Apparently no one has any other suggestions?

Brian925 said:

Apparently no one has any other suggestions?

Clean install Windows 10 ver 1607 and get things started again with a good install that is accepting updates.

This may be a burning problem. Make a dvd with imgburn. The Official ImgBurn Website