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Windows Update.

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Try the tool in link

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Just tried the tool in link thenry and diddly squat happened.

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As in nothing at all? It didn't even launch?

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It said after l pressed download Windows 10 do you want to run it and after that it disappeared.

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Believe me I am eternally grateful for all the help I have received from CF members over the years including yours thenry, and should I decide at a future date to have another crack at the upgrade I truly hope you and others will once again be there to assist. :tu:

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You mean the download tool? you downloaded the correct bit version?

heres a guide

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...tallation.html

at 3E skip to step 9

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Yes l downloaded it and things disappeared for a while like me but finally it has installed Windows 10 so touch wood hopefully everything will be alright.

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:woot:

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new cumulative update KB3081438 now on updates

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I had another go or two or three.

I detached all USB devices apart from my wireless keyboard and mouse, uninstalled all anti-virus software, up dated as many drivers as far aspossible, performed a clean boot and after everything had downloaded, following advice, I disconnected the network cable.

As usual the installation fell over after the first reboot at 30% giving no reason.

Things I haven't done include disconnecting my addition internal hard drives and using an iso disc.

Incidentally I did a pre-installation check for Windows 8.1 which is supposed to cover many of the possible Windows 10 issues. It found no compatibility issues that might affect installation.

My final, and this time I mean final, attempt will be with an iso disc. No way am I disconnecting my internal hard drives. If MS cannot come up with an upgrade process better than this they should be ashamed. I know it is a free upgrade, but they have a duty of care to all those non-savvy computer users out there.


BTW windows 10 installed with no problems onto my son's i7 laptop, from 8.1.

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advice from whom to disconnect the network cable?

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Not sure how relevant it is but try updating the bios for the motherboard.

Loads of reports that unplugging Sata drives/dvd optical drives fixes the freezing for some people so try that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/c..._10_list_your/

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Could it be related to this?
Windows 10: broken update forces some users into endless reboot loop
Are you using a Nvidia graphics card? Apparently their update process uses a dummy user account. An entry in the registry about user profiles may mess with win 10 installation. The registry entries contain a directory that doesn't exist, ie C:\Users\UpdatusUser.

I'm preparing to upgrade to win 10 and my win 8.1 registry has 2 user profiles entries like that.

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http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...3-5e8fb56bd812

Reading the above helpful comments it appears to me that MS has messed up here. We had few of these problems with previous upgrades.

SnoopZ. Yes my bios is up-to-date. It is absolutely shocking that MS have taken us to a point where I need to disconnect all my internal peripherals including, NomadKing, my Nvidia graphics card. I am resentful of having to do so. What happens to the millions of folk out there who are not computer savvy?